| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Enoch Arden, &c. by Alfred Tennyson: went.
And I said, `Let us part: in a hundred years it'll all
be the same,
You cannot love me at all, if you love not my good
name.'
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And he turn'd, and I saw his eyes all wet, in the sweet
moonshine:
Sweetheart, I love you so well that your good name
is mine.
And what do I care for Jane, let her speak of you well
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: finances; one, of the tapa law; one, of the direct appointment of
chiefs by Tamasese-Brandeis, the sort of mistake into which
Europeans in the South Seas fall so readily; one, of the enforced
labour of chiefs; one, of the taxes; and one, of the roads. This I
may give in full from the very lame translation in the American
white book. "The roads that were made were called the Government
Roads; they were six fathoms wide. Their making caused much damage
to Samoa's lands and what was planted on it. The Samoans cried on
account of their lands, which were taken high-handedly and abused.
They again cried on account of the loss of what they had planted,
which was now thrown away in a high-handed way, without any regard
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: questions that we may take him with us on our journey? He would be
very useful to us, and we will promise to bring him safely back to
you."
The King did not reply at once. He seemed to be thinking.
"PLEASE let us take the Pink Bear," begged Cayke. "I'm sure he would
be a great help to us."
"The Pink Bear," said the King, "is the best bit of magic I possess,
and there is not another like him in the world. I do not care to let
him out of my sight, nor do I wish to disappoint you; so I believe I
will make the journey in your company and carry my Pink Bear with me.
He can walk when you wind the other side of him, but so slowly and
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