| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: It seemed that Phileas Fogg had an idea, for he said to the captain,
"Well, will you carry me to Bordeaux?"
"No, not if you paid me two hundred dollars."
"I offer you two thousand."
"Apiece?"
"Apiece."
"And there are four of you?"
"Four."
Captain Speedy began to scratch his head. There were eight thousand dollars
to gain, without changing his route; for which it was well worth conquering
the repugnance he had for all kinds of passengers. Besides, passenger's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: there, and go round to the people who ought to see them in office-
boxes or by post. The principle of secrecy was to that Viceroy
quite as important as the practice, and he held that a benevolent
despotism like Ours should never allow even little things, such as
appointments of subordinate clerks, to leak out till the proper
time. He was always remarkable for his principles.
There was a very important batch of papers in preparation at that
time. It had to travel from one end of Simla to the other by hand.
It was not put into an official envelope, but a large, square,
pale-pink one; the matter being in MS. on soft crinkley paper. It
was addressed to "The Head Clerk, etc., etc." Now, between "The
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: all, for often the rescinding edicts appeared under his own name,
and by the New Year, when he was brought forth to receive the
foreign ministers accredited to his court, scarcely anything
remained of all his reforms but the Peking University and the
provincial and other schools. It is not to be wondered at
therefore that he was reticent and despondent. What promises of
good behaviour it was necessary for him to make before he was
even allowed this much liberty, it is useless for us to
conjecture.
Following this audience the Empress Dowager, who up to this time
had been seen by no foreigner except Prince Henry of Prussia,
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