| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: did not require to listen; for the Dutch courier, who had to
answer, it must have been a perfect nightmare. It would seem as
if he had consoled himself by frequent appliances to the bottle;
it would even seem that (toward the end) he had ceased to depend
on Joseph's frugal generosity and called for the flagon on his
own account. The effect, at least, of some mellowing influence
was visible in the record: Abbas became suddenly a willing
witness; he began to volunteer disclosures; and Julia had just
looked up from her seam with something like a smile, when Morris
burst into the house, eagerly calling for his uncle, and the next
instant plunged into the room, waving in the air the evening
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: person who proposes a change. It would be quite easy to make England
a paradise, according to our present ideas, in a few years. There is
no mystery about it: the way has been pointed out over and over
again. The difficulty is not the way but the will. And we have no
will because the first thing done with us in childhood was to break
our will. Can anything be more disgusting than the spectacle of a
nation reading the biography of Gladstone and gloating over the
account of how he was flogged at Eton, two of his schoolfellows being
compelled to hold him down whilst he was flogged. Not long ago a
public body in England had to deal with the case of a schoolmaster
who, conceiving himself insulted by the smoking of a cigaret against
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: Brittany that no one who can bear arms shall refuse to follow him
at once.
(Vv. 1093-1146.) All Brittany is now astir. Never was such an
army seen as King Arthur brought together. When the ships came
to set sail, it seemed that the whole world was putting out to
sea; for even the water was hid from view, being covered with the
multitude of ships. It is certainly true that, to judge by the
commotion, all Brittany is under way. Now the ships have crossed
the Channel, and the assembled host is quartered on the shore.
Alexander bethought himself to go and pray the King to make him a
knight, for if ever he should win renown it will be in this war.
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