| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: epidemics, bears the sense of being overcome as with "fire, flood,
or visitors." But the gem of the dictionary is the verb ALOVAO,
which illustrates its pages like a humorous woodcut. It is used in
the sense of "to avoid visitors," but it means literally "hide in
the wood." So, by the sure hand of popular speech, we have the
picture of the house deserted, the MALANGA disappointed, and the
host that should have been quaking in the bush.
We are thus brought to the beginning of a series of traits of
manners, highly curious in themselves, and essential to an
understanding of the war. In Samoa authority sits on the one hand
entranced; on the other, property stands bound in the midst of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Juana by Honore de Balzac: persons; the yoke of such conventionalities can only be cast off by
great and unthinkable powers. So goes the world.
These details but faintly picture the many tortures to which Juana was
subjected; they came upon her one by one; each social nature pricked
her with its own particular pin; and to a soul which preferred the
thrust of a dagger, there could be no worse suffering than this
struggle in which Diard received insults he did not feel and Juana
felt those she did not receive. A moment came, an awful moment, when
she gained a clear and lucid perception of society, and felt in one
instant all the sorrows which were gathering themselves together to
fall upon her head. She judged her husband incapable of rising to the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Reef by Edith Wharton: and he had reason to hope that in consequence his own
departure for London would be deferred. He was exhilarated
by the prospect of being with Anna for a few hours longer,
and she did not ask herself if his exhilaration were a sign
of insensibility, for she was too conscious of his power of
swaying her moods not to be secretly proud of affecting his.
They lingered for some time over the fruit and coffee, and
when they rose to go Darrow suggested that, if she felt
disposed for the play, they were not too late for the second
part of the programme at one of the smaller theatres.
His mention of the hour recalled Owen to her thoughts. She
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