| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: good magistrate.'
'I only wish I was a solicitor,' retorted his companion, 'instead
of a poor devil of a country gentleman. Suppose we start one of
those tontine affairs ourselves; I to pay five hundred a year,
and you to guarantee me against every misfortune except illness
or marriage.'
'It strikes me,' remarked the lawyer with a meditative laugh, as
he lighted a cigar, 'it strikes me that you must be a cursed
nuisance in this world of ours.'
'Do you really think so, Finsbury?' responded the magistrate,
leaning back in his cushions, delighted with the compliment.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: place about twenty leagues distant from Bazaim. Here I hire a catre
and four boys to carry me to Bazaim: these catres are a kind of
travelling couches, in which you may either lie or sit, which the
boys, whose business is the same with that of chairmen in our
country, support upon their shoulders by two poles, and carry a
passenger at the rate of eighteen or twenty miles a day. Here we at
length found the patriarch, with three more priests, like us,
designed for the mission of Aethiopia. We went back to Daman, and
from thence to Diou, where we arrived in a short time.
Chapter III
The author embarks with the patriarch, narrowly escapes shipwreck
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: parasitism has invariably been the decay in vitality and intelligence of
the female, followed after a longer or shorter period by that of her male
descendants and her entire society.
Nevertheless, in the history of the past the dangers of the sex-parasitism
have never threatened more than a small section of the females of the human
race, those exclusively of some comparatively small dominant race or class;
the mass of women beneath them being still compelled to assume many forms
of strenuous activity. It is at the present day, and under the peculiar
conditions of our modern civilisation, that for the first time sex-
parasitism has become a danger, more or less remote, to the mass of
civilised women, perhaps ultimately to all.
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