| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: however, not unfrequently bravely done, and was seldom discovered.
I was not so fortunate as to resemble any of my free acquaintances
sufficiently to answer the description of their papers.
But I had a friend--a sailor--who owned a sailor's protection,
which answered somewhat the purpose of free papers--describing his person,
and certifying to the fact that he was a free American sailor.
The instrument had at its head the American eagle, which gave
it the appearance at once of an authorized document.
This protection, when in my hands, did not describe
its bearer very accurately. Indeed, it called for a man
much darker than myself, and close examination of it would
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: struck every one, and had, upon the whole, a very impressive
effect.
From the hazardous situation of the beacon-house with
regard to fire, being composed wholly of timber, there was no
small risk from accident: and on this account one of the most
steady of the artificers was appointed to see that the fire of
the cooking-house, and the lights in general, were carefully
extinguished at stated hours.
[Monday, 4th June]
This being the birthday of our much-revered Sovereign
King George III, now in the fiftieth year of his reign, the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: but make haste and get in, for I long to be off."
Catherine followed her orders and turned away,
but not too soon to hear her friend exclaim aloud to James,
"What a sweet girl she is! I quite dote on her."
"You will not be frightened, Miss Morland," said Thorpe,
as he handed her in, "if my horse should dance about
a little at first setting off. He will, most likely,
give a plunge or two, and perhaps take the rest for a minute;
but he will soon know his master. He is full of spirits,
playful as can be, but there is no vice in him."
Catherine did not think the portrait a very inviting one,
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