| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: more devotion, than our saint. Before his day, even you will
confess, they had effected little. It was his part, by one
striking act of martyrdom, to direct all men's eyes on that
distressful country. At a blow, and with the price of his life, he
made the place illustrious and public. And that, if you will
consider largely, was the one reform needful; pregnant of all that
should succeed. It brought money; it brought (best individual
addition of them all) the sisters; it brought supervision, for
public opinion and public interest landed with the man at Kalawao.
If ever any man brought reforms, and died to bring them, it was he.
There is not a clean cup or towel in the Bishop-Home, but dirty
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: humour, with a keenness of appreciation . . . . "
"But things do not always go well?"
"Things," said Sir Richmond with the deliberation of a man
who measures his words, "are apt to go wrong. . . . At the
flat there is constant trouble with the servants; they bully
her. A woman is more entangled with servants than a man.
Women in that position seem to resent the work and freedom of
other women. Her servants won't leave her in peace as they
would leave a man; they make trouble for her. . . . And when
we have had a few days anywhere away, even if nothing in
particular has gone wrong--"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Some Reminiscences by Joseph Conrad: and you can lead him home. I really don't want him on deck.
He's in the way."
Almayer seemed doubtful. I insisted:
"Why, I will just swing him out and land him on the wharf right
in front of you. I'd much rather do it before the hatches are
off. The little devil may jump down the hold or do some other
deadly thing."
"There's a halter?" postulated Almayer.
"Yes, of course there's a halter." And without waiting any more
I leaned over the bridge rail.
"Serang, land Tuan Almayer's pony."
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