| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: All equal, and all happy. Here he comes --
And there he goes. And we, by your new patent,
Would seem to be two kings here by the wayside,
With our two hats off to his Excellency.
Why not his Majesty, and done with it?
Forgive me if I shook your meditation,
But you that weld our credit should have eyes
To see what's coming. Bury me first if -I- do.
HAMILTON
There's always in some pocket of your brain
A care for me; wherefore my gratitude
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte: and the latter achieved his exit exactly as a spaniel might which
suspected the person who attended on it of designing a spiteful
squeeze. The lock was re-secured. Heathcliff approached the fire,
where my mistress and I stood silent. Catherine looked up, and
instinctively raised her hand to her cheek: his neighbourhood
revived a painful sensation. Anybody else would have been
incapable of regarding the childish act with sternness, but he
scowled on her and muttered - 'Oh! you are not afraid of me? Your
courage is well disguised: you seem damnably afraid!'
'I AM afraid now,' she replied, 'because, if I stay, papa will be
miserable: and how can I endure making him miserable - when he -
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: Malie; so that from the top of some tall palm in Malie it should be
possible to descry against the eastern heavens the palms of
Mulinuu. The trade wind sweeps over the low peninsula and cleanses
it from the contagion of the swamp. Samoans have a quaint phrase
in their language; when out of health, they seek exposed places on
the shore "to eat the wind," say they; and there can be few better
places for such a diet than the point of Mulinuu.
Two European houses stand conspicuous on the harbour side; in
Europe they would seem poor enough, but they are fine houses for
Samoa. One is new; it was built the other day under the apologetic
title of a Government House, to be the residence of Baron Senfft.
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