| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: with the Kanakas, but yet destitute of real authority, so that his
boys laughed at him and he must carry out his wishes by the means
of bribes. He learned to have a mania for doctoring; and set up
the Kanakas against the remedies of his regular rivals: perhaps (if
anything matter at all in the treatment of such a disease) the
worst thing that he did, and certainly the easiest. The best and
worst of the man appear very plainly in his dealings with Mr.
Chapman's money; he had originally laid it out" [intended to lay it
out] "entirely for the benefit of Catholics, and even so not
wisely; but after a long, plain talk, he admitted his error fully
and revised the list. The sad state of the boys' home is in part
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Othello by William Shakespeare: Fortune, if you will watch his going thence (which
I will fashion to fall out betweene twelue and one)
you may take him at your pleasure. I will be neere
to second your Attempt, and he shall fall betweene
vs. Come, stand not amaz'd at it, but go along with
me: I will shew you such a necessitie in his death, that
you shall thinke your selfe bound to put it on him. It
is now high supper time: and the night growes to wast.
About it
Rod. I will heare further reason for this
Iago. And you shalbe satisfi'd.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: say?--businesslike,' and he returned the cheque across the
counter.
Morris took it up mechanically; he was thinking of something very
different.
'In a--case of this kind,' he began, 'I believe the loss falls on
us; I mean upon my uncle and myself.'
'It does not, sir,' replied Mr Bell; 'the bank is responsible,
and the bank will either recover the money or refund it, you may
depend on that.'
Morris's face fell; then it was visited by another gleam of hope.
'I'll tell you what,' he said, 'you leave this entirely in my
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