| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: gave him counsel "the deepest that ever yet was given to living man," and
"wrought on him to the performing of great deeds;" who, when he died,
raised high the funeral pyre and lay down on it beside him, crying, "Nor
shall the door swing to at the heel of him as I go in beside him!" We are
of a race of women that of old knew no fear, and feared no death, and lived
great lives and hoped great hopes; and if today some of us have fallen on
evil and degenerate times, there moves in us yet the throb of the old
blood.
If it be today on no physical battlefield that we stand beside our men, and
on no march through no external forest or morass that we have to lead; it
is yet the old spirit which, undimmed by two thousand years, stirs within
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson: aliment to his suspicions, and to depend entirely (as well as I
make out) on the chance that their victim was as greedy, hopeful,
and irrational as themselves, and might, after all, betray his life
and treasure.
Twice in the course of the next day Secundra and the Master must
have appeared to themselves to have escaped; and twice they were
circumvented. The Master, save that the second time he grew a
little pale, displayed no sign of disappointment, apologised for
the stupidity with which he had fallen aside, thanked his
recapturers as for a service, and rejoined the caravan with all his
usual gallantry and cheerfulness of mien and bearing. But it is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: will begin to assist in the work seven hundred pairs of hands which
you cannot see. Thus everything will be multiplied tenfold. I myself
have ceased even to have to lift a finger, for whatsoever needs to be
done gets done of itself. Nature loves patience: always remember that.
It is a law given her of God Himself, who has blessed all those who
are strong to endure."
"To hear your words is to be both encouraged and strengthened," said
Chichikov. To this Kostanzhoglo made no reply, but presently went on:
"And see how that piece of land has been ploughed! To stay here longer
is more than I can do. For me, to have to look upon such want of
orderliness and foresight is death. Finish your business with Khlobuev
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