| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: have his own lip doctored by a barber of the name of Fouquet.
In one version, he says that Gilles, Isabeau, and Le Mardi
ran away at the first high words, and that he and Sermaise
had it out alone; in another, Le Mardi is represented as
returning and wresting Villon's sword from him: the reader
may please himself. Sermaise was picked up, lay all that
night in the prison of Saint Benoit, where he was examined by
an official of the Chatelet and expressly pardoned Villon,
and died on the following Saturday in the Hotel Dieu.
This, as I have said, was in June. Not before January of the
next year could Villon extract a pardon from the king; but
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith: than to approve.
MARLOW. Pardon me, madam. I was always willing to be amused. The
folly of most people is rather an object of mirth than uneasiness.
HASTINGS. (To him.) Bravo, bravo. Never spoke so well in your whole
life. Well, Miss Hardcastle, I see that you and Mr. Marlow are going
to be very good company. I believe our being here will but embarrass
the interview.
MARLOW. Not in the least, Mr. Hastings. We like your company of all
things. (To him.) Zounds! George, sure you won't go? how can you
leave us?
HASTINGS. Our presence will but spoil conversation, so we'll retire to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Animal Farm by George Orwell: every animal, with two ounces of corn for each bird and three biscuits for
each dog. It was announced that the battle would be called the Battle of
the Windmill, and that Napoleon had created a new decoration, the Order
of the Green Banner, which he had conferred upon himself. In the general
rejoicings the unfortunate affair of the banknotes was forgotten.
It was a few days later than this that the pigs came upon a case of whisky
in the cellars of the farmhouse. It had been overlooked at the time when
the house was first occupied. That night there came from the farmhouse the
sound of loud singing, in which, to everyone's surprise, the strains of
'Beasts of England' were mixed up. At about half past nine Napoleon,
wearing an old bowler hat of Mr. Jones's, was distinctly seen to emerge
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