| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: a hairdresser's shop and stealing a wig, some razors and a little
money, Butler pleaded guilty.
But the charge of highway robbery, which bore a singular
resemblance to the final catastrophe in Queensland, he resisted
to the utmost, and showed that his experience in the Supreme
Court at Dunedin had not been lost on him. At half-past six one
evening in a suburb of Melbourne an elderly gentleman found
himself confronted by a bearded man, wearing a long overcoat and
a boxer hat and flourishing a revolver, who told him abruptly to
"turn out his pockets." The old man did ashe was told. The
robber then asked for his watch and chain, saying "Business must
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The United States Bill of Rights: without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war,
but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated,
and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath
or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons or things to be seized.
V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime,
unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: sandwiches, tea, and an occasional glass of bitter beer, a man
can live luxuriously in London for fourteen pounds twelve
shillings per annum.'
'Yes, I know,' returned Michael, 'but that's not including
clothes, washing, or boots. The whole thing, with cigars and
occasional sprees, costs me over seven hundred a year.'
But this was Michael's last interruption. He listened in
good-humoured silence to the remainder of his uncle's lecture,
which speedily branched to political reform, thence to the theory
of the weather-glass, with an illustrative account of a bora in
the Adriatic; thence again to the best manner of teaching
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