| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: the custom of our land. But I charge you, as far as may be possible
for you to do so, take only a man whom you can love, and be faithful
to him alone, for thus shall a woman find happiness."
Here I stopped, for the girl took hold of my hand and looked into my
face. "Peace, my father," she said, "do not speak to me of marriage,
for I will wed no man, now that Umslopogaas is dead because of my
foolishness. I will live and die alone, and, oh! may I die quickly,
that I may go to seek him whom I love only!"
"Nay, Nada," I said, "Umslopogaas was your brother, and it is not
fitting that you should speak of him thus, even though he is dead."
"I know nothing of such matters, my father," she said. "I speak what
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: frailty and without remark or lamentation; left the Samoan question
openly and fairly to the conference: and in the meanwhile, to
allay the local heats engendered by Becker and Knappe, he sent to
Apia that invaluable public servant, Dr. Stuebel. I should be a
dishonest man if I did not bear testimony to the loyalty since
shown by Germans in Samoa. Their position was painful; they had
talked big in the old days, now they had to sing small. Even
Stuebel returned to the islands under the prejudice of an
unfortunate record. To the minds of the Samoans his name
represented the beginning of their sorrows; and in his first term
of office he had unquestionably driven hard. The greater his merit
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: complicated to be satisfactorily treated within the limits of
the present paper. It has been said that the point of
resemblance between a cow and a comet, that both have tails,
was quite enough for the primitive word-maker: it was
certainly enough for the primitive myth-teller.[46] Sometimes
the pinnate shape of a leaf, the forking of a branch, the
tri-cleft corolla, or even the red colour of a flower, seems
to have been sufficient to determine the association of ideas.
The Hindu commentators of the Veda certainly lay great stress
on the fact that the palasa, one of their lightning-trees, is
trident-leaved. The mistletoe branch is forked, like a
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