| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: letter of commission among those great numbers alledged to uphold
the reputation of the discoveries."
Concerning those through whose malice such disturbance was
wrought, and so much blood shed, a few words may be added.
Within twelve months of Lord Stafford's execution, Shaftesbury
was charged with high treason, but escaping condemnation, fled
from further molestation to Holland, where, after a residence of
six weeks, he died. Tonge departed this life in 1680,
unbenefited by the monstrous plot he had so skilfully devised;
and in the same year Bedlow was carried to the grave after an
illness of four days. Oates survived to meet a share of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad: south-west, it is all one - a different phase of the same
character, a changed expression on the same face. In the
orientation of the winds that rule the seas, the north and south
directions are of no importance. There are no North and South
Winds of any account upon this earth. The North and South Winds
are but small princes in the dynasties that make peace and war upon
the sea. They never assert themselves upon a vast stage. They
depend upon local causes - the configuration of coasts, the shapes
of straits, the accidents of bold promontories round which they
play their little part. In the polity of winds, as amongst the
tribes of the earth, the real struggle lies between East and West.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: behind. "Why had he suffered? Why had he lived? Does he now
understand?" Nekhludoff thought, and there seemed to be no
answer, seemed to be nothing but death, and he felt faint.
Without taking leave of the Englishman, Nekhludoff asked the
inspector to lead him out into the yard, and feeling the absolute
necessity of being alone to think over all that had happened that
evening, he drove back to his hotel.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
A NEW LIFE DAWNS FOR NEKHLUDOFF.
Nekhludoff did not go to bed, but went up and down his room for a
long time. His business with Katusha was at an end. He was not
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