| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: with a scrape.
'Better not, I think,' said Mr. Kentish. 'My compliments to
Mr. Harland; and if she seem a lively boat, give her the
stars and stripes; but if she be dull, and we can easily
outsail her, show John Dutchman. That is always another word
for incivility at sea; so we can disregard a hail or a flag
of distress, without attracting notice.'
As soon as the sailor had gone on deck, I turned to the
officer in wonder. 'Mr. Kentish, if that be your name,'
said I, 'are you ashamed of your own colours?'
'Your ladyship refers to the JOLLY ROGER?' he inquired, with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gambara by Honore de Balzac: admirer more lofty, more generous, more disinterested than she had
dared to hope. He took her to a little apartment, where he had allowed
himself to remind her of his good offices by some of the elegant
trifles which have a charm for the most virtuous women.
"I will never speak to you of love till you give up all hope of your
Paolo," said the Count to Marianna, as he bid her good-bye at the Rue
Froid-Manteau. "You will be witness to the sincerity of my attempts.
If they succeed. I may find myself unequal to keeping up my part as a
friend; but in that case I shall go far away, Marianna. Though I have
firmness enough to work for your happiness, I shall not have so much
as will enable me to look on at it."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Last War: A World Set Free by H. G. Wells: adventure, and the urgency of curiosity, and how these serve the
universal drift. And all their stories lead in the end either to
happiness missed or happiness won, to disaster or salvation. The
clearer their vision and the subtler their art, the more
certainly do these novels tell of the possibility of salvation
for all the world. For any road in life leads to religion for
those upon it who will follow it far enough....
It would have seemed a strange thing to the men of the former
time that it should be an open question as it is to-day whether
the world is wholly Christian or not Christian at all. But
assuredly we have the spirit, and as surely have we left many
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