| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Glaucus/The Wonders of the Shore by Charles Kingsley: does it not seem to you that six weeks' rest, free from the cares
of town business and the whirlwind of town pleasure, could not be
better spent than in examining those wonders a little, instead of
wandering up and down like the many, still wrapt up each in his
little world of vanity and self-interest, unconscious of what and
where they really are, as they gaze lazily around at earth and sea
and sky, and have
"No speculation in those eyes
Which they do glare withal"?
Why not, then, try to discover a few of the Wonders of the Shore?
For wonders there are there around you at every step, stranger than
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: 'He couldn't; you have to have a doctor's certificate,' objected
John.
'Did you never hear of venal doctors?' enquired Morris. 'They're
as common as blackberries: you can pick 'em up for
three-pound-ten a head.'
'I wouldn't do it under fifty if I were a sawbones,' ejaculated
John.
'And then Michael,' continued Morris, 'is in the very thick of
it. All his clients have come to grief; his whole business is
rotten eggs. If any man could arrange it, he could; and depend
upon it, he has his plan all straight; and depend upon it, it's a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton: hours remaining to her.
"Don't talk now--you're tired."
"I'll be tireder to-morrow, I guess. And I want you should
know. Sit down close to me--there."
Ann Eliza sat down in silence, stroking her shrunken hand.
"I'm a Roman Catholic, Ann Eliza."
"Evelina--oh, Evelina Bunner! A Roman Catholic--YOU?
Oh, Evelina, did HE make you?"
Evelina shook her head. "I guess he didn't have no religion;
he never spoke of it. But you see Mrs. Hochmuller was a Catholic,
and so when I was sick she got the doctor to send me to a Roman
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