| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: upon the boy when suddenly his wrinkled face lighted with recognition.
"Mr. Westmacott!" he cried, and there was surprise in his voice.
Richard, conscious that Trenchard must no doubt regard him as a
turn-tippet, flushed, and stood aside to give passage to the other. But
Mr. Trenchard was by no means minded to pass. He clapped a hand on
Richard's shoulder. "Nay," he cried, between laughter and feigned
resentment. "Do you bear me ill-will, lad?"
Richard was somewhat taken aback. "For what should I bear you ill-will,
Mr. Trenchard?" quoth he.
Trenchard laughed frankly, and so uproariously that his hat over-jauntily
cocked was all but shaken from his head. "I mind me the last time we
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: amounting to twenty minae a month for each trireme--"
"I know! How many lost?"
"Here is the account on these sheets of lead," said the Steward. "As
to the ships chartered in common, it has often been necessary to throw
the cargo into the seas, and so the unequal losses have been divided
among the partners. For the ropes which were borrowed from the
arsenals, and which it was impossible to restore, the Syssitia exacted
eight hundred kesitahs before the expedition to Utica."
"They again!" said Hamilcar, hanging his head; and he remained for a
time as if quite crushed by the weight of all the hatreds that he
could feel upon him. "But I do not see the Megara expenses?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: our future advantage. To this he answered, in part, as follows:
"I wish to thank you for your kindly reply.... Your argument is that as a
matter of policy we should conciliate Great Britain. Have we fallen so
low, this great and powerful nation?... Truckling to some other power
because its backing, moral or physical, may some day be of use to us,
even tho' we know that in so doing we are surrendering our dearest
rights, principles, and dignity!... Oh! my dear Sir, you surely do not
advocate this? I inclose an editorial clipping.... Is it no shock to you
when Winston Churchill shouts to High Heaven that under no circumstances
will Great Britain surrender its supreme control of the seas? This in
reply to President Wilson's plea for freedom of the seas and curtailment
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