| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: the gates again, happily satisfied in myself, and feeling
that I alone of all whom I had seen was able to profit by the
silent poem of these green mounds and blackened headstones.
(1) RELIGIO MEDICI, Part ii.
(2) DUCHESS OF MALFI.
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CHAPTER IV - NURSES
I KNEW one once, and the room where, lonely and old, she
waited for death. It was pleasant enough, high up above the
lane, and looking forth upon a hill-side, covered all day
with sheets and yellow blankets, and with long lines of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: no longer say, "God is for and with me." With an expression
of indescribable anguish he threw himself upon the body of
the child, reopened its eyes, felt its pulse, and then
rushed with him into Valentine's room, of which he
double-locked the door. "My child," cried Villefort, "he
carries away the body of my child! Oh, curses, woe, death to
you!" and he tried to follow Monte Cristo; but as though in
a dream he was transfixed to the spot, -- his eyes glared as
though they were starting through the sockets; he griped the
flesh on his chest until his nails were stained with blood;
the veins of his temples swelled and boiled as though they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain: and when he goes off to fill your order you will grow old
and infirm before you see him again. You may struggle nobly
for twenty-four hours, maybe, if you are an adamantine
sort of person, but in the mean time you will have been
so wretchedly served, and so insolently, that you will
haul down your colors, and go to impoverishing yourself
with fees.
It seems to me that it would be a happy idea to import
the European feeing system into America. I believe it
would result in getting even the bells of the Philadelphia
hotels answered, and cheerful service rendered.
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