| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: it would be as good as insurance. I know. I've knocked about
amongst reefs myself. Besides, if you weren't so mediaeval, I
could be skipper and save more than the engineer's wages."
He did not reply to her thrust, and she glanced at him. He was
looking out over the water, and in the lantern light she noted the
lines of his face--strong, stern, dogged, the mouth almost chaste
but firmer and thinner-lipped than Tudor's. For the first time she
realized the quality of his strength, the calm and quiet of it, its
simple integrity and reposeful determination. She glanced quickly
at Tudor on the other side of her. It was a handsomer face, one
that was more immediately pleasing. But she did not like the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary
for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate
and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation
till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended,
he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of
large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish
the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right
inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: parties being sick of the expense, the mine was deserted, and
the town decamped. According to the second version, told me
with much secrecy of manner, the whole affair, mine, mill,
and town, were parts of one majestic swindle. There had
never come any silver out of any portion of the mine; there
was no silver to come. At midnight trains of packhorses
might have been observed winding by devious tracks about the
shoulder of the mountain. They came from far away, from
Amador or Placer, laden with silver in "old cigar boxes."
They discharged their load at Silverado, in the hour of
sleep; and before the morning they were gone again with their
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