| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar: dishonest. It was going to be a guarantee business, with a
strictly financial basis. But worse than all this, the new
manager, who was now in France, would not only procure the
artists, but a new orchestra, a new leader. M'sieu Fortier grew
apprehensive at this, for he knew what the loss of his place
would mean to him.
September and October came, and the papers were filled with
accounts of the new artists from France and of the new orchestra
leader too. He was described as a most talented, progressive,
energetic young man. M'sieu Fortier's heart sank at the word
"progressive." He was anything but that. The New Orleans Creole
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: distance: but it wouldn't matter what I named; that would be
the price."
"It sounds mysterious enough," said I. "Is this public auction
conducted in a subterranean vault? Could a plain citizen--
myself, for instance--come and see?"
"O, everything's open and above board!" he cried indignantly.
"Anybody can come, only nobody bids against us; and if he
did, he would get frozen out. It's been tried before now, and
once was enough. We hold the plant; we've got the connection;
we can afford to go higher than any outsider; there's two
million dollars in the ring; and we stick at nothing. Or suppose
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: I have once jotted in the margin, 'HARROWING is the word';
and when the MOKOLII bore me at last towards the outer world,
I kept repeating to myself, with a new conception of their
pregnancy, those simple words of the song -
''Tis the most distressful country that ever yet was seen.'
And observe: that which I saw and suffered from was a
settlement purged, bettered, beautified; the new village
built, the hospital and the Bishop-Home excellently arranged;
the sisters, the doctor, and the missionaries, all
indefatigable in their noble tasks. It was a different place
when Damien came there and made his great renunciation, and
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