| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: volatile, and went to the top of Arthur's Seat on the Sunday
forenoon. He was as quiet in a debating society as he was
loud in the streets. He was reckless and imprudent:
yesterday he insisted on your sharing a bottle of claret with
him (and claret was claret then, before the cheap-and-nasty
treaty), and to-morrow he asks you for the loan of a penny to
buy the last number of the LAPSUS.
The student of LAW, again, was a learned man. 'He had turned
over the leaves of Justinian's INSTITUTES, and knew that they
were written in Latin. He was well acquainted with the
title-page of Blackstone's COMMENTARIES, and ARGAL (as the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne: "If Captain Nemo does sometimes go on dry ground," said I,
"he at least chooses desert islands."
Ned Land shrugged his shoulders without speaking, and Conseil
and he left me.
After supper, which was served by the steward, mute and impassive,
I went to bed, not without some anxiety.
The next morning, the 17th of November, on awakening, I felt
that the Nautilus was perfectly still. I dressed quickly
and entered the saloon.
Captain Nemo was there, waiting for me. He rose, bowed,
and asked me if it was convenient for me to accompany him.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: shall be told.
When the feast was done and we had drunk of the cocoa or chocolate,
and smoked tobacco in pipes, a strange but most soothing custom
that I learned in Tobasco and of which I have never been able to
break myself, though the weed is still hard to come by here in
England, I was led to my sleeping place, a small chamber panelled
with cedar boards. For a while I could not sleep, for I was
overcome by the memory of all the strange sights that I had seen in
this wonderful new land which was so civilised and yet so
barbarous. I thought of that sad-faced king, the absolute lord of
millions, surrounded by all that the heart of man can desire, by
Montezuma's Daughter |
