| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: other than forlorn attempts to shift the blame on to each other's
shoulders.
Before extracting from their various avowals, which grew more
complete as time went on, the story of the crime, let us follow
Eyraud in his flight from justice, which terminated in the May of
1890 by his arrest in Havana.
Immediately after the arrest of Gabrielle, two French detectives
set out for America to trace and run down if possible her
deserted lover. For more than a month they traversed Canada and
the United States in search of their prey. The track of the
fugitive was marked from New York to San Francisco by acts of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: "Surely; and blank passports ready to be signed. I will attend
you there," said the Marquis, "instantly."
"It were too much honour for the like of me," said Dalgetty;
"your lordship shall remain under charge of mine honest friend
Ranald MacEagh; therefore, prithee let me drag you within reach
of his chain.--Honest Ranald, you see how matters stand with us.
I shall find the means, I doubt not, of setting you at freedom.
Meantime, do as you see me do; clap your hand thus on the weasand
of this high and mighty prince, under his ruff, and if he offer
to struggle or cry out, fail not, my worthy Ranald, to squeeze
doughtily; and if it be AD DELIQUIUM, Ranald, that is, till he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: this is to know.
THEAETETUS: Granted.
SOCRATES: And further, when any one wishes to catch any of these
knowledges or sciences, and having taken, to hold it, and again to let them
go, how will he express himself?--will he describe the 'catching' of them
and the original 'possession' in the same words? I will make my meaning
clearer by an example:--You admit that there is an art of arithmetic?
THEAETETUS: To be sure.
SOCRATES: Conceive this under the form of a hunt after the science of odd
and even in general.
THEAETETUS: I follow.
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