| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: copecks a word."
And he telegraphed the following news, just brought
him by Blount: "Russian fugitives are escaping from the
town. 'Away went Gilpin -- who but he? His fame soon
spread around: He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis
for a thousand pound!'" And Blount turned round with
a quizzical look at his rival.
Alcide Jolivet fumed.
In the meanwhile Harry Blount had returned to the win-
dow, but this time his attention was diverted by the interest
of the scene before him. Therefore, when the clerk had
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fables by Robert Louis Stevenson: "Not much to boast of, by your account," cried the reader.
"Who is impious now?" said the book.
And the reader put him on the fire.
The coward crouches from the rod,
And loathes the iron face of God.
XII. - THE CITIZEN AND THE TRAVELLER.
"LOOK round you," said the citizen. "This is the largest market in
the world."
"Oh, surely not," said the traveller.
"Well, perhaps not the largest," said the citizen, "but much the
best."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: "
It was with a feeling which neither of them had
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ever before experienced, that they sat and watched Pearl's slow
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