| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris: for Wilbur. He liked her splendid ropes of hair, her heavy
contralto voice, her fine animal strength of bone and muscle
(admittedly greater than his own); he admired her indomitable
courage and self-reliance, while her positive genius in the
matters of seamanship and navigation filled him with speechless
wonder. The girls he had been used to were clever only in their
knowledge of the amenities of an afternoon call or the formalities
of a paper german. A girl of two-and-twenty who could calculate
longitude from the altitude of a star was outside his experience.
The more he saw of her the more he knew himself to have been right
in his first estimate. She drank whiskey after her meals, and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: recompense of his works.
Now, in little while, the fame of Ioasaph was blazoned abroad;
and led, as it were by the scent of sweet ointment, all men
flocked to him daily, casting off their poverty of soul and body:
and his name was on every man's lips. It was not fear and
oppression that drew the people to him, but desire and heart-felt
love, which by God's blessing and the king's fair life had been
planted in their hearts.
Then, too, did his father's subjects begin to come to him, and,
laying aside all error, received the Gospel of truth. And the
house of Ioasaph grew and waxed strong, but the house of Abenner
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: inland and beating away, as it surely would in course of time, the
low flat limestone plain of the middle of Ireland. But the same
coral-reefs once stretched out far to the westward into the
Atlantic Ocean; and you may see the proof upon that map. For in
the western bays, in Clew Bay with its hundred islands, and Galway
Bay with its Isles of Arran, and beautiful Kenmare, and beautiful
Bantry, you see little blue spots, which are low limestone
islands, standing in the sea, overhung by mountains far aloft.
You have often heard those islands in Kenmare Bay talked of, and
how some whom you know go to fish round them by night for turbot
and conger; and when you hear them spoken of again, you must
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