| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Chronicles of the Canongate by Walter Scott: and 11th Earls. She survived her husband, who died 1729, no less
than fifty-seven years, and died March 1780, in her ninety-first
year. Allan Ramsay's Gentle Shepherd, published 1726, is
dedicated to her, in verse, by Hamilton of Bangour.
The following account of this distinguished lady is taken from
Boswell's Life of Johnson by Mr. Croker:--
"Lady Margaret Dalrymple, only daughter of John, Earl of Stair,
married in 1700, to Hugh, third Earl of Loudoun. She died in
1777, aged ONE HUNDRED. Of this venerable lady, and of the
Countess of Eglintoune, whom Johnson visited next day, he thus
speaks in his JOURNEY:--'Length of life is distributed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn: and so fertile that sickness and want were unknown; and the people were so
good that no laws were ever broken. And Akinosuke dwelt and ruled in Raishu
for twenty years more,-- making in all twenty-three years of sojourn,
during which no shadow of sorrow traversed his life.
But in the twenty-fourth year of his governorship, a great misfortune came
upon him; for his wife, who had borne him seven children,-- five boys and
two girls,-- fell sick and died. She was buried, with high pomp, on the
summit of a beautiful hill in the district of Hanryoko; and a monument,
exceedingly splendid, was placed upon her grave. But Akinosuke felt such
grief at her death that he no longer cared to live.
Now when the legal period of mourning was over, there came to Raishu, from
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: up a "boy's book" together. But he likewise expressed his sense
that there was something in the air, that the Moreens couldn't keep
it up much longer. In point of fact, as Pemberton was to see, they
kept it up for five or six months. All the while, however,
Morgan's contention was designed to cheer him. Mr. Moreen and
Ulick, whom he had met the day after his return, accepted that
return like perfect men of the world. If Paula and Amy treated it
even with less formality an allowance was to be made for them,
inasmuch as Mr. Granger hadn't come to the opera after all. He had
only placed his box at their service, with a bouquet for each of
the party; there was even one apiece, embittering the thought of
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