| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: liberty to give his name, but from what I heard I doubt if you
would care to have him to dinner in Beretania Street. "You
miserable little -------" (here is a word I dare not print, it
would so shock your ears). "You miserable little ------," he
cried, "if the story were a thousand times true, can't you see you
are a million times a lower ----- for daring to repeat it?" I wish
it could be told of you that when the report reached you in your
house, perhaps after family worship, you had found in your soul
enough holy anger to receive it with the same expressions; ay, even
with that one which I dare not print; it would not need to have
been blotted away, like Uncle Toby's oath, by the tears of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: or less factitious life of society:--obligations to remain very
still with every nimble nerve quivering in dumb revolt;--the
injustice of being found troublesome and being sent to bed early
for the comfort of her elders;--the cruel necessity of straining
her pretty eyes, for many long hours at a time, over grimy desks
in gloomy school-rooms, though birds might twitter and bright
winds flutter in the trees without;--the austere constrains
and heavy drowsiness of warm churches, filled with the droning
echoes of a voice preaching incomprehensible things;--the
progressively augmenting weariness of lessons in deportment, in
dancing, in music, in the impossible art of keeping her dresses
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: I made no answer, but asked of our conductor, that same Spaniard
whom I had saved from the sacrifice, what the senor meant by his
words.
'This, Teule; that there has been a quarrel between our comrade
Sarceda and our captain. The former would have granted you no
terms, or failing this would have decoyed you from your stronghold
with false promises, and then have put you to the sword as infidels
with whom no oath is binding. But the captain would not have it
so, for he said that faith must be kept even with the heathen, and
we whom you had saved cried shame on him. And so words ran high,
and in the end the Senor Sarceda, who is third in command among us,
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