| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Father Damien by Robert Louis Stevenson: done much for the lepers, our own ministers, the government
physicians, and so forth, but never with the Catholic idea of
meriting eternal life. - Yours, etc.,
"C. M. HYDE" (1)
(1) From the Sydney PRESBYTERIAN, October 26, 1889.
To deal fitly with a letter so extraordinary, I must draw at the
outset on my private knowledge of the signatory and his sect. It
may offend others; scarcely you, who have been so busy to collect,
so bold to publish, gossip on your rivals. And this is perhaps the
moment when I may best explain to you the character of what you are
to read: I conceive you as a man quite beyond and below the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale: under the tower.)
Men and Women.
The veil, the lady's veil!
(The knight takes the lady in his arms.)
L.
My lord, I pray you loose me from your arms
Lest that my people see how much we love.
K.
May they not see us? All of them have loved.
L.
But you have been an enemy, my lord,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: again, and of fatigue piling up upon fatigue. At last we ceased
to think of anything but pumping; one became a thing of torment
enchanted, doomed to pump for ever. I still remember it as pure
relief when at last Pollack came to me pipe in mouth.
"The captain says the damned thing's going down right now;' he
remarked, chewing his mouthpiece. "Eh?"
"Good idea!" I said. "One can't go on pumping for ever."
And without hurry or alacrity, sullenly and wearily we got into
the boats and pulled away from the Maud Mary until we were
clear of her, and then we stayed resting on our oars, motionless
upon a glassy sea, waiting for her to sink. We were all silent,
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