| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: one thing worth living for--life for oneself."
Is it age, is it youth, that thus shocks all my sense, in my solemn
completeness of man? Perhaps, in great capitals, young men of
pleasure will answer, "It is youth; and we think what he says!"
Young friends, I do not believe you.
II
Along the grass track I saw now, under the moon, just risen, a
strange procession--never seen before in Australian pastures. It
moved on, noiselessly but quickly. We descended the hillock, and
met it on the way; a sable litter, borne by four men, in unfamiliar
Eastern garments; two other servitors, more bravely dressed, with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: his book and tossed it to one side, and the housekeeper came
in to lay another place. "Yet it might have been years,
many long years, so tremendous is the difference
that the lapse of time has wrought in me."
"I am afraid we have nothing to tempt you very much,
Mr. Ware," remarked Father Forbes, with a gesture of his
plump white hand which embraced the dishes in the centre
of the table. "May I send you a bit of this boiled mutton?
I have very homely tastes when I am by myself."
"I was saying," Theron observed, after some moments had
passed in silence, "that I date such a tremendous revolution
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: 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
the result of his lack of control; in part, of his own
slovenly ways and false ideas of hygiene. Brother officials
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