| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: at all remember you, on the day when Damien of Molokai shall be
named a Saint, it will be in virtue of one work: your letter to the
Reverend H. B. Gage.
You may ask on what authority I speak. It was my inclement destiny
to become acquainted, not with Damien, but with Dr. Hyde. When I
visited the lazaretto, Damien was already in his resting grave.
But such information as I have, I gathered on the spot in
conversation with those who knew him well and long: some indeed who
revered his memory; but others who had sparred and wrangled with
him, who beheld him with no halo, who perhaps regarded him with
small respect, and through whose unprepared and scarcely partial
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: road in my life till to-day. Miles and miles and miles ahead,
with not even a post or tree. That big car seemed to leap at the
miles. It hummed and sang. I was fascinated, then terrified.
We went so fast I couldn't catch my breath. The wind went through
me, and I expected to be disrobed by it any minute. I was afraid
I couldn't hold any clothes on. Presently all I could see was a
flashing gray wall with a white line in the middle. Then my eyes
blurred. My face burned. My ears grew full of a hundred thousand
howling devils. I was about ready to die when the car stopped.
I looked and looked, and when I could see, there you stood!"
"Helen, I thought you were fond of speeding," said Madeline, with
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: the Rue du Helder; there is not a moment to lose, I am afraid,
and I must wait here till Christophe comes back. I have not a
farthing; I shall have to pay the cabman when I get home again."
Rastignac rushed down the stairs, and drove off to the Rue du
Helder. The awful scene through which he had just passed
quickened his imagination, and he grew fiercely indignant. He
reached Mme. de Restaud's house only to be told by the servant
that his mistress could see no one.
"But I have brought a message from her father, who is dying,"
Rastignac told the man.
"The Count has given us the strictest orders, sir----"
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