| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from To-morrow by Joseph Conrad: rectly, "Suppose he's the son of old Hagberd!"
He laughed at himself for it. It was a strong
craze. He could remember the time when the whole
town was full of it. But he had his hopes of the
old chap yet. He would cure him by a course of
judicious chaffing. He was watching the progress
of the treatment. Next week--next month--next
year! When the old skipper had put off the date
of that return till next year, he would be well on
his way to not saying any more about it. In other
matters he was quite rational, so this, too, was
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: said the lady who answered to the name of Belinda. "It gave
me cold shivers to think that those Italian officers might
understand English. "
The lady who was called V.V. smiled as if she smiled at
herself, and explained herself to Sir Richmond. "When one is
travelling about, one gets to think of history and politics
in terms of architecture. I do anyhow. And those columns with
Corinthian capitals have got to be a sort of symbol for me
for everything in Europe that I don't want and have no sort
of use for. It isn't a bad sort of capital in its way, florid
and pretty, but not a patch on the Doric;--and that a whole
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: fact that he had the honesty of mind to be convinced. I may here
tell you that it was a long business; that one of his colleagues
sat with him late into the night, multiplying arguments and
accusations; that the father listened as usual with "perfect good-
nature and perfect obstinacy"; but at the last, when he was
persuaded - "Yes," said he, "I am very much obliged to you; you
have done me a service; it would have been a theft." There are
many (not Catholics merely) who require their heroes and saints to
be infallible; to these the story will be painful; not to the true
lovers, patrons, and servants of mankind.
And I take it, this is a type of our division; that you are one of
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