| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land of Footprints by Stewart Edward White: resting a huge telescope over his crossed feet. With this he
purposed seeing any lion that moved within ten miles. None of the
rest of us could ever make out anything through the fearsome
weapon. Therefore, relieved from responsibility by the presence
of this Dreadnaught of a 'scope, we loafed and looked about us.
This is what we saw:
Mountains at our backs, of course-at some distance; then plains
in long low swells like the easy rise and fall of a tropical sea,
wave after wave, and over the edge of the world beyond a distant
horizon. Here and there on this plain, single hills lay becalmed,
like ships at sea; some peaked, some cliffed like buttes, some
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Scenes from a Courtesan's Life by Honore de Balzac: her. Mariette, Florine, Tullia would ask their friend to dinner, and
gave her some help; but as they did not know the extent of her debts,
they did not dare to sound the depths of that gulf. An interval of six
years formed rather too long a gap in the ebb and flow of the Paris
tide, between La Torpille and Madame du Val-Noble, for the woman "on
foot" to speak to the woman in her carriage; but La Val-Noble knew
that Esther was too generous not to remember sometimes that she had,
as she said, fallen heir to her possessions, and not to seek her out
by some meeting which might seem accidental though arranged. To bring
about such an accident, Madame du Val-Noble, dressed in the most lady-
like way, walked out every day in the Champs-Elysees on the arm of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: unknown.
(b) The less capable in strength, mental calibre, or other capacity.
(c) The indolent, and those whose conduct and character appeared
doubtful. These would remain in this class, until sufficiently
improved for advancement, or are pronounced so hopeless as to
justify expulsion.
The 2nd class would have a small extra allowance, a part of which would
be given to the workers for private use, and a part reserved for future
contingencies, the payment of travelling expenses, etc.
From this class we should obtain our petty officers, send out hired
labourers, emigrants, etc., etc.
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