| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: and his gun, Leary and his bombardment, - what a kettle of fish!
I dwell on the effect on Tamasese. Whatever the faults of Becker,
he was not timid; he had already braved so much for Mulinuu that I
cannot but think he might have continued to hold up his head even
after the outrage of the pigs, and that the weakness now shown
originated with the king. Late in the night, Blacklock was wakened
to receive a despatch addressed to Leary. "You have asked that I
and my government go away from Mulinuu, because you pretend a man
who lives near Mulinuu and who is under your protection, has been
threatened by my soldiers. As your Excellency has forbidden the
man to accept any satisfaction, and as I do not wish to make war
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: service some other memorial of the same lovely head, some
preliminary sketch, some study for the picture. I had replied that
I had indeed painted Miss Saunt more than once and that if he were
interested in my work I should be happy to show him what I had
done. Mr. Geoffrey Dawling, the person thus introduced to me,
stumbled into my room with awkward movements and equivocal sounds--
a long, lean, confused, confusing young man, with a bad complexion
and large protrusive teeth. He bore in its most indelible pressure
the postmark, as it were, of Oxford, and as soon as he opened his
mouth I perceived, in addition to a remarkable revelation of gums,
that the text of the queer communication matched the registered
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: but were none the less pitilessly hanged and gibbeted.
Indignant Alma Mater interfered before the king; and the
Provost was deprived of all royal offices, and condemned to
return the bodies and erect a great stone cross, on the road
from Paris to the gibbet graven with the effigies of these
two holy martyrs. (1) We shall hear more of the benefit of
clergy; for after this the reader will not be surprised to
meet with thieves in the shape of tonsured clerks, or even
priests and monks.
(1) Monstrelet: PANTHEON LITTERAIRE, p. 26.
To a knot of such learned pilferers our poet certainly
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