| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sanitary and Social Lectures by Charles Kingsley: born in England, and that therefore they would cause the subjects
of Queen Victoria to increase at a very far more rapid rate than
they do now? And are they aware that some very wise men inform us
that England is already over-peopled, and that it is an
exceedingly puzzling question where we shall soon be able to find
work or food for our masses, so rapidly do they increase already,
in spite of the thirty or forty per cent. which kind Nature
carries off yearly before they are five years old? Have they
considered what they are to do with all those children whom they
are going to save alive? That has to be thought of; and if they
really do believe, with some political economists, that over-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: sir. Now, Grimes, your statements imply one of two things - some
member of the household either went downstairs after you had
retired, and opened the window in the reception room to admit the
person who afterwards attacked you in the library, or" - Ferguson
paused significantly, "some member of this household knocked you
senseless in the library. Which was it?"
There was a tense silence. McIntyre, by an obvious effort,
refrained from speech as they waited for Grimes' answer.
"I dunno who hit me." Grimes avoided looking at the three men. "But
some one did, and that window in the reception room was locked when
I went upstairs to my bedroom after every one had retired. I'm
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: me, and I am sure he will never blame me. Have no scruple in accepting
my offer; our property is derived from the Emperor; we do not own a
penny that is not the result of his munificence. Is it not gratitude
to him to assist his faithful soldiers? Take the sums you need as
indifferently as I offer them. It is only money!" she added, in a tone
of contempt. "Now, as for friends,--those you shall have."
She raised her head proudly, and her eyes shone with dazzling
brilliancy.
"The head which falls to-morrow before a dozen muskets will save
yours," she went on. "Wait till the storm is over; you can then escape
and take service in foreign countries if you are not forgotten here;
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