| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: ing year a child was born, and the young wife,
her features suffused with "a supernatural
beauty" lay trying to smile at the husband who
knelt sobbing beside her, Tolstoy must have real-
ised that for once his prophetic intuition had been
unequal to its task. If his imagination could
have conceived in prenuptial days what depths of
emotion might be wakened by fatherhood, he
would not have treated the birth of Masha's first
child in "Conjugal Happiness" as a trivial ma-
terial event, in no way affecting the mutual rela-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: for some dramatic evidence of his sincerity, than with the thought
of practical deletion. At that time, indeed, he was possessed of
two blotted scrolls and a fair copy in double. But the chapter, as
the reader knows, was honestly omitted from the famous 'Memoirs on
the various Courts of Europe.' It has been mine to give it to the
public.
Bibliography still helps us with a further glimpse of our
characters. I have here before me a small volume (printed for
private circulation: no printer's name; n.d.), 'Poesies par Frederic
et Amelie.' Mine is a presentation copy, obtained for me by Mr.
Bain in the Haymarket; and the name of the first owner is written on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: spoke out, before everybody! ``Senor, there is land yonder,
under the north! Should not we change course and see
what is there?''
``It is cloud,'' answered the Admiral. ``Though I do not
deny that such a haze may be crying, `Land behind!' ''
``Let us sail then north, and see!''
But the Admiral shook his head. ``No, Captain! West
--west--arrow straight!''
Pinzon appeared about to say, ``You are very wrong,
and we should see what's behind that arras!'' But he
checked himself, standing before Admiral and Don and Viceroy,
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