| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Little Britain by Washington Irving: Little Britain who has long, long since bloomed, faded, and
passed away. As I am an idle personage, with no apparent
occupation, and pay my bill regularly every week, I am looked
upon as the only independent gentleman of the neighborhood;
and, being curious to learn the internal state of a community so
apparently shut up within itself, I have managed to work my
way into all the concerns and secrets of the place.
Little Britain may truly be called the heart's core of the city;
the stronghold of true John Bullism. It is a fragment of
London as it was in its better days, with its antiquated folks
and fashions. Here flourish in great preservation many of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: Mediterranean but took root at once in right fertile soil.
Besides, Master Edmund Hogan had been on a successful embassy to
the Emperor of Morocco; John Hawkins and George Fenner had been to
Guinea (and with the latter Mr. Walter Wren, a Bideford man), and
had traded there for musk and civet, gold and grain; and African
news was becoming almost as valuable as West Indian. Moreover, but
two months before had gone from London Captain Hare in the bark
Minion, for Brazil, and a company of adventurers with him, with
Sheffield hardware, and "Devonshire and Northern kersies," hollands
and "Manchester cottons," for there was a great opening for English
goods by the help of one John Whithall, who had married a Spanish
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: that my country, would, in this her day, learn the
things which belong to her peace!
Enter DIMPLE.
DIMPLE
You are Colonel Manly, I presume?
MANLY
At your service, Sir.
DIMPLE
My name is Dimple, Sir. I have the honour to be
a lodger in the same house with you, and, hearing you
were in the Mall, came hither to take the liberty of
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