| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: and she was sentenced to penal servitude for life. Her conduct
in prison was so repentant and exemplary that she was released in
1892.
M. Proal, a distinguished French judge, and the author of some
important works on crime, acted as the examining magistrate in
the case of Vitalis and Marie Boyer. He thus sums up his
impression of the two criminals: "Here is an instance of how
greed and baseness on the one side, lust and jealousy on the
other, bring about by degrees a change in the characters of
criminals, and, after some hesitation, the suggestion and
accomplishment of parricide, Is it necessary to seek an
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: younger, being brought up here by my father upon a visit, nor can
I forget the astonishment with which I saw this infant-hermit
shun every attempt I made to engage him in the sports natural to
our age. I can remember his father bewailing his disposition to
mine, and alleging, at the same time, that it was impossible for
him to take from his wife the company of the boy, as he seemed to
be the only consolation that remained to her in this world, and
as the amusement which Allan's society afforded her seemed to
prevent the recurrence, at least in its full force, of that
fearful malady by which she had been visited. But, after the
death of his mother, the habits and manners of the boy seemed at
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The War in the Air by H. G. Wells: grasping the idea of the Butteridge flying-machine. But he found
it stiff and perplexing. His motor-bicycle and Grubb's
experiments and the "mechanical drawing" he had done in standard
seven all helped him out; and, moreover, the maker of these
drawings, whoever he was, had been anxious to make his intentions
plain. Bert copied sketches, he made notes, he made a quite
tolerable and intelligent copy of the essential drawings and
sketches of the others. Then he fell into a meditation upon
them.
At last he rose with a sigh, folded up the originals that had
formerly been in his chest-protector and put them into the
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