| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: other hand, the age and position of Webster, the aggravating
persistency of Parkman, his threats and denunciations, coupled
with his own shortness of temper, make it conceivable that he may
have killed his victim on a sudden and overmastering provocation,
in which case he had better at once have acknowledged his crime
instead of making a repulsive attempt to conceal it. But for the
evidence of Dr. Keep he would possibly have escaped punishment
altogether. Save for the portions of his false teeth, there was
not sufficient evidence to identify the remains found in the
college as those of Parkman. Without these teeth the proof of
the corpus delicti would have been incomplete, and so afforded
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: back and fall in with a party of Boers who, we believe, have crossed the
Quathlamba Mountains into Natal. Or perhaps we might get to the Bay and
find a ship to take us anywhere from this horrible place. If you could
come, the natives would guide you to where we are.
"But it is too much to hope that you will come, or that if you do come
you will find us still alive.
"Allan, my dearest, I have one more thing to say, though I must say it
shortly, for the paper is nearly finished. I do not know, supposing
that you are alive and well, whether you still care for me, who left you
so long ago--it seems years and years--but _my_ heart is where it was,
and where I promised it should remain, in your keeping. Of course,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: so distinguished a soldier as Colonel Gabilonda," bowed Bucky
gravely, in his turn, with the most flowery Spanish he could
muster.
There was another half-hour of the mutual exchange of compliments
before O'Connor could get away. Alphonse and Gaston were fairly
outdone, for the Arizonian, with a smile hidden deep behind the
solemnity of his blue eyes, gave as good as he got. When he was
at last fairly in the safety of his own rooms he gave way to limp
laughter while describing to his little friend that most
ceremonious parting.
"He pressed me to his manly bay window, Curly, and allowed he was
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