| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson: but the beginning of fresh sorrows."
"Would you leave me quite alone?" said he.
We were not long in suspense as to the nature of the new assault.
Up to that hour the Master had played a very close game with Mrs.
Henry; avoiding pointedly to be alone with her, which I took at the
time for an effect of decency, but now think to be a most insidious
art; meeting her, you may say, at meal-time only; and behaving,
when he did so, like an affectionate brother. Up to that hour, you
may say he had scarce directly interfered between Mr. Henry and his
wife; except in so far as he had manoeuvred the one quite forth
from the good graces of the other. Now all that was to be changed;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson: MORAL EMBLEMS: A SECOND COLLECTION OF CUTS AND VERSES
I. With storms a-weather, rocks-a-lee
II. The careful angler chose his nook
III. The Abbot for a walk went out
IV. The frozen peaks he once explored
V. Industrious pirate! see him sweep
A MARTIAL ELEGY FOR SOME LEAD SOLDIERS
For certain soldiers lately dead
THE GRAVER AND THE PEN: OR, SCENES FROM NATURE, WITH APPROPRIATE
VERSES
I. PROEM - Unlike the common run of men
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: movement in operation beyond the Fuisa, so that the Tamaseses
should be assailed at the same moment from the south and east. And
this is another indication that the attack on Matautu was the true
attack; had any design on Mulinuu been in the wind, not even a
Samoan general would have detached these troops upon the other
side. While they still spoke, five Tamasese women were brought in
with their hands bound; they had been stealing "our" bananas.
All morning the town was strangely deserted, the very children
gone. A sense of expectation reigned, and sympathy for the attack
was expressed publicly. Some men with unblacked faces came to
Moors's store for biscuit. A native woman, who was there
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