| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: back. I've run out of your cigarettes."
I handed him my case in silence.
"It's curious," he said, "how used one can get to inferior
tobacco."
Tea appeared in serial form. After depositing the three-storied
cake dish holder- or whatever the thing is called- with a
to-be-completed air, the footman disappeared, to return a moment
later with the teapot and hot water. As he turned to go:
"Bring me the tray that's on the billiard-table," said Berry.
"Carry it carefully."
"Yes, sir.
The Brother of Daphne |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: spider in his web, for the most of our business was done at night;
and straight-way the matter would be attended to, to my master's
profit and the satisfaction of all. By degrees it became known
that though I was so young yet I had discretion, and that nothing
which went in at my ears came out of my lips; that I neither
brawled nor drank nor gambled to any length, and that though I was
friendly with many fair ladies, there were none who were entitled
to know my secrets. Also it became known that I had some skill in
my art of healing, and it was said among the ladies of Seville that
there lived no man in that city so deft at clearing the skin of
blemishes or changing the colour of the hair as old Fonseca's
Montezuma's Daughter |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: It was after our present Secretary of the Navy, in his speech in Boston
to which allusion has been made, had given our navy all and the British
navy none of the credit of conveying our soldiers overseas, that Admiral
Sims repaired the singular oblivion of the Secretary. We Americans should
know the truth, he said. We had not been too accurately informed. We did
not seem to have been told by anybody, for instance, that of the five
thousand anti-submarine craft operating day and night in the infested
waters, we had 160, or 3 per cent; that of the million and a half troops
which had gone over from here in a few months, Great Britain brought over
two thirds and escorted half.
"I would like American papers to pay particular attention to the fact
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