| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: Little by little they forgot their terrors and I my caution; until
at last we were brought back to earth by a catastrophe that might
very easily have been foreseen, but was not the less astonishing to
us when it occurred.
I had filled all the glasses. 'I have a toast to propose,' I
whispered, 'or rather three, but all so inextricably interwoven
that they will not bear dividing. I wish first to drink to the
health of a brave and therefore a generous enemy. He found me
disarmed, a fugitive and helpless. Like the lion, he disdained so
poor a triumph; and when he might have vindicated an easy valour,
he preferred to make a friend. I wish that we should next drink to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Lover's Complaint by William Shakespeare: Of wealth, of filial fear, law, kindred, fame!
Love's arms are peace, 'gainst rule, 'gainst sense, 'gainst
shame.
And sweetens, in the suffering pangs it bears,
The aloes of all forces, shocks and fears.
'Now all these hearts that do on mine depend,
Feeling it break, with bleeding groans they pine,
And supplicant their sighs to your extend,
To leave the battery that you make 'gainst mine,
Lending soft audience to my sweet design,
And credent soul to that strong-bonded oath,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: indicating Gallien; "I wish you would set that man ashore, to save
me the trouble." The same day de Coetlogon published a
proclamation requesting captains to submit to search for contraband
of war.
On the 22nd the SAMOA TIMES AND SOUTH SEA ADVERTISER was suppressed
by order of Fritze. I have hitherto refrained from mentioning the
single paper of our islands, that I might deal with it once for
all. It is of course a tiny sheet; but I have often had occasion
to wonder at the ability of its articles, and almost always at the
decency of its tone. Officials may at times be a little roughly,
and at times a little captiously, criticised; private persons are
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