| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: you may find some of the same belief. But perhaps my fine
discovery is a piece of art, and belongs to a character cowardly,
intolerant of certain feelings, and apt to self-deception. I don't
think so, however; and when I feel what a weak and fallible vessel
I was thrust into this hurly-burly, and with what marvellous
kindness the wind has been tempered to my frailties, I think I
should be a strange kind of ass to feel anything but gratitude.
I do not know why I should inflict this talk upon you; but when I
summon the rebellous pen, he must go his own way; I am no Michael
Scott, to rule the fiend of correspondence. Most days he will none
of me; and when he comes, it is to rape me where he will. - Yours
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: "Are YOU Christians?" A strange storm broke across the stranger's
features; he rose to his feet.
"Why, of course, we are!" said Peter. "We're all Christians, we English.
Perhaps you don't like Christians, though? Some Jews don't, I know," said
Peter, looking up soothingly at him.
"I neither love nor hate any man for that which he is called," said the
stranger; "the name boots nothing."
The stranger sat down again beside the fire, and folded his hands.
"Is the Chartered Company Christian also?" he asked.
"Yes, oh yes," said Peter.
"What is a Christian?" asked the stranger.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: Then she fainted. I caught her and carried her to the limousine.
When I had set her on the deep seat, I turned to the lady.
"I do not know where she lives," I said. "We have only met
casually."
"A physician?" she queried. "Had she better- "
"I don't think it is a case for a doctor. She has only fainted.
Perhaps you- "
"I will attend to her, and when we get to the Opera House, my
maid- "
She turned to the footman and seemed to tell him to stay behind
and see to the cabman and the police, who had come up. Then she
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