| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: hour appointed for King Monmouth's butchery."
"What else?" asked Wilding, impatient to be off.
They were standing in the street under the sign of The Ship, by which
Jonathan Edney Mr. Trenchard's landlord - distinguished his premises and
the chandler's trade he drove there. Trenchard set a detaining hand on
Mr. Wilding's arm.
"Nine o'clock is the hour appointed for supper. It is odds the Duke
will be a little late, and it is more than odds that when he does
arrive, the assassins will wait until the company is safely at table and
lulled by good eating and drinking. You had overlooked that, I see. It
asks an old head for wisdom, after all. Look you, Anthony. Speed to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Professor by Charlotte Bronte: viciously with Ignorance, though indeed Luxury is her favourite
paramour, and princely halls are dearer to her than thatched
hovels---"
"I was not thinking of the wretchedness and vice in England; I
was thinking of the good side--of what is elevated in your
character as a nation."
"There is no good side--none at least of which you can have any
knowledge; for you cannot appreciate the efforts of industry, the
achievements of enterprise, or the discoveries of science:
narrowness of education and obscurity of position quite
incapacitate you from understanding these points; and as to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: McIntyre, why did the prisoner so obligingly walk straight into
a closet on your arrival in the library?"
"I presume he was looking for a way out of the room and blundered
into it," she explained. "There are seven doors opening from our
library; the prisoner may have heard me approaching, become confused,
and walked through the wrong door."
"That is quite plausible - with an ordinary bona-fide burglar,"
agreed Penfield. "But was not Mr. Turnbull acquainted with the
architectural arrangements of your house?"
"He was a frequent caller and an intimate friend," she said, with
dignity. "As to his power of observation and his bump of locality
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