| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: indifferent, and lest we should be doing him an injustice by assuming
this we had better give him the benefit of the doubt, and take it that
in the subsequent bustle of departure, his mind filled with the prospect
of the night attack to be delivered upon his uncle's army at-Sedgemoor,
he thought no more either of Mr. Newlington or of Mr. Wilding. The
latter, as we know, had no place in the rebel army; although a man of
his hands, he was not a trained soldier, and notwithstanding that he may
fully have intended to draw his sword for Monmouth when the time came,
yet circumstances had led to his continuing after Monmouth's landing
the more diplomatic work of movement-man, in which he had been engaged
for the months that had preceded it.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: hand, and all your blustering talk is that much wind to me. However, I
believe in your way you do still care something for your daughter after
all; and I must just be doing with that ground of confidence, such as
it is."
Whereupon, I arranged with him that he was to communicate with me, as
to his whereabouts and Catriona's welfare, in consideration of which I
was to serve him a small stipend.
He heard the business out with a great deal of eagerness; and when it
was done, "My dear fellow, my dear son," he cried out, "this is more
like yourself than any of it yet! I will serve you with a soldier's
faithfulness - "
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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: different conversations with Captain Hand, "who has always
maintained friendly intercourse with the German authorities," it
had been repeatedly explained that only the supply of weapons and
ammunition, or similar aid and support, was to come under German
martial law. Was it weapons or ammunition that Fletcher had
supplied? But it is unfair to criticise these wrigglings of an
unfortunate in a false position.
In a despatch of the 23rd, which has not been printed, Knappe had
told his story: how he had declared war, subjected foreigners to
martial law, and been received with a counter-proclamation by the
English consul; and how (in an interview with Mataafa chiefs at the
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