| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: let her go on her journey alone. To the boy, who knew enough of
the inner history of the household to enjoy the piquancy of the
situation, such a trick seemed quite amusing. He went away
picturing in his mind the scene at the railway station and its
humorous possibilities.
At seven o'clock Vitalis and Marie Boyer were alone once more
with the murdered woman. They had the whole night before them.
Vitalis had already considered the matter of the disposal of the
body. He had bought a pick and spade. He intended to bury his
former mistress in the soil under the cellar. After that had
been done, he and Marie would sell the business for what it would
A Book of Remarkable Criminals |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: manner of your death. Even the service that you rendered the arms
of Kaol shall avail you naught; it was but a base subterfuge whereby
you might win your way into my favor and reach the side of this holy
man whose life you craved. To the pits with him!" he concluded,
addressing the officer of my guard.
Here was a pretty pass, indeed! What chance had I against a
whole nation? What hope for me of mercy at the hands of the
fanatical Kulan Tith with such advisers as Matai Shang and Thurid.
The black grinned malevolently in my face.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Common Sense by Thomas Paine: The great empires of the east are mostly inland,
and consequently excluded from the possibility of rivalling her.
Africa is in a state of barbarism; and no power in Europe hath either
such an extent of coast, or such an internal supply of materials.
Where nature hath given the one, she has withheld the other;
to America only hath she been liberal of both. The vast empire of Russia
is almost shut out from the sea: wherefore, her boundless forests, her tar,
iron, and cordage are only articles of commerce.
In point of safety, ought we to be without a fleet? We are not the
little people now, which we were sixty years ago; at that time we might
have trusted our property in the streets, or fields rather; and slept
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