| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: stealth and of the immixture of a trading company in political
affairs, has vitiated, and in the end defeated, much German policy.
And Brandeis was introduced to the islands as a clerk, and sent
down to Leulumoenga (where he was soon drilling the troops and
fortifying the position of the rebel king) as an agent of the
German firm. What this mystification cost in the end I shall tell
in another place; and even in the beginning, it deceived no one.
Brandeis is a man of notable personal appearance; he looks the part
allotted him; and the military clerk was soon the centre of
observation and rumour. Malietoa wrote and complained of his
presence to Becker, who had succeeded Dr. Stuebel in the consulate.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "For me, there are only two social positions worth speaking of--
that of an American lady and that of the Emperor of Russia."
"And what do you do with the American gentlemen?" asked Lord Lambeth.
"She leaves them in America!" said Percy Beaumont.
On the departure of their visitors, Bessie Alden told her sister that
Lord Lambeth would come the next day, to go with them to the Tower,
and that he had kindly offered to bring his "trap" and drive them thither.
Mrs. Westgate listened in silence to this communication,
and for some time afterward she said nothing. But at last,
"If you had not requested me the other day not to mention it,"
she began, "there is something I should venture to ask you."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: men would have joy and happiness from the same.
Let me now say in conclusion that this commandment demands not only
that every one live chastely in thought, word, and deed in his
condition, that is, especially in the estate of matrimony, but also
that every one love and esteem the spouse given him by God. For where
conjugal chastity is to be maintained, man and wife must by all means
live together in love and harmony, that one may cherish the other from
the heart and with entire fidelity. For that is one of the principal
points which enkindle love and desire of chastity, so that, where this
is found, chastity will follow as a matter of course without any
command. Therefore also St. Paul so diligently exhorts husband and wife
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