| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: have wished for this same thing! And I am glad to buy your breakfast
to you. But it would be pleisand if I would have had to dance to get a
meal to you! For I believe they are not very well acquainted with our
manner of dancing over here, and might be paying for the curiosity of
that sight."
I could have kissed her for that word, not with a lover's mind, but in
a heat of admiration. For it always warms a man to see a woman brave.
We got a drink of milk from a country wife but new come to the town,
and in a baker's, a piece of excellent, hot, sweet-smelling bread,
which we ate upon the road as we went on. That road from Delft to the
Hague is just five miles of a fine avenue shaded with trees, a canal on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: wish they had never been born; but since they have had that
misfortune, they will be thankful for any trifle their grandpapa
will be kind enough to bestow?'
Of course, we both applauded our mother's resolution; Mary cleared
away the breakfast things; I brought the desk; the letter was
quickly written and despatched; and, from that day, we heard no
more of our grandfather, till we saw his death announced in the
newspaper a considerable time after - all his worldly possessions,
of course, being left to our wealthy unknown cousins.
CHAPTER XX - THE FAREWELL
A HOUSE in A-, the fashionable watering-place, was hired for our
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles: I had a mind to visit the high shrines,
For Oedipus is overwrought, alarmed
With terrors manifold. He will not use
His past experience, like a man of sense,
To judge the present need, but lends an ear
To any croaker if he augurs ill.
Since then my counsels naught avail, I turn
To thee, our present help in time of trouble,
Apollo, Lord Lycean, and to thee
My prayers and supplications here I bring.
Lighten us, lord, and cleanse us from this curse!
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