| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: received that message - and it must of necessity be as the White
Moll that she must communicate with him to-night! It would be hard
to explain - she meant to evade it. The one vital point was that
she remembered the telephone number he had given her that night when
he and Danglar had met in the garret. She was not likely to have
forgotten it!
Rhoda Gray, alias Gypsy Nan, scuffled along. Was she inconsistent?
The Adventurer would be in his element in going to the Pug's room,
and in relieving Pinkie Bonn of that money; but the Adventurer, too,
was a thief-wasn't he? Why, then, did she propose, for her mind
was now certainly made up as to her course of action, to trust a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy: that good patriot, Citoyen Foucquier-Tinville.
Robespierre and Danton both had commended Bibot for his zeal
and Bibot was proud of the fact that he on his own initiative had sent
at least fifty aristos to the guillotine.
But to-day all the sergeants in command at the various
barricades had had special orders. Recently a very great number of
aristos had succeeded in escaping out of France and in reaching
England safely. There were curious rumours about these escapes; they
had become very frequent and singularly daring; the people's minds
were becoming strangely excited about it all. Sergeant Grospierre had
been sent to the guillotine for allowing a whole family of aristos to
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: The observers were then about six miles from the Chimneys, not far from
that part of the downs in which the engineer had been found after his
enigmatical preservation. They halted at this place and prepared for
breakfast, for it was half-past eleven. Herbert went for some fresh water
from a stream which ran near, and brought it back in a jug, which Neb had
provided.
During these preparations Harding arranged everything for his
astronomical observation. He chose a clear place on the shore, which the
ebbing tide had left perfectly level. This bed of fine sand was as smooth
as ice, not a grain out of place. It was of little importance whether it
was horizontal or not, and it did not matter much whether the stick six
The Mysterious Island |
