| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: enough to say himself--his sympathies were in the right place.
His mother was half-English, his father was half-French. All
Europe contributed to the making of Kurtz; and by and by I
learned that, most appropriately, the International Society
for the Suppression of Savage Customs had intrusted him
with the making of a report, for its future guidance.
And he had written it, too. I've seen it. I've read it.
It was eloquent, vibrating with eloquence, but too high-strung,
I think. Seventeen pages of close writing he had found time for!
But this must have been before his--let us say--nerves, went wrong,
and caused him to preside at certain midnight dances ending
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: of his testimony to the honourable principles of the people, and
to their detestation of a breach of trust to a kind and
honourable master, however great might be the risk, or however
fatal the consequences, to the individual himself."--Vol.1., pp.
52,53, 3rd Edit.
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NOTE TO THE TWO DROVERS.
Note 11.--ROBERT DONN'S POEMS.
I cannot dismiss this story without resting attention for a
moment on the light which has been thrown on the character of the
Highland Drover since the time of its first appearance, by the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: skirts as possible.
"But where is my maid?" asked the Baroness.
"There was no maid," replied the manager, "save for your gracious sister
and daughter."
"Sister!" she cried sharply. "Fool, I have no sister. My child travelled
with the daughter of my dressmaker."
Tableau grandissimo!
4. FRAU FISCHER.
Frau Fischer was the fortunate possessor of a candle factory somewhere on
the banks of the Eger, and once a year she ceased from her labours to make
a "cure" in Dorschausen, arriving with a dress-basket neatly covered in a
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