| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: joined England and France. Have we seemed to think that this diminished
our glory? Have they seemed to think that it absolved them from
gratitude?
Such talk as that man's in front of the bulletin board helped Germany
then, whether he meant to or not, just as much as if a spy had said it--
just as much as similar talk against England to-day, whether by spies or
unheeding Americans, helps the Germany of to-morrow. The Germany of
yesterday had her spies all over France and Italy, busily suggesting to
rustic uninformed peasants that we had gone to France for conquest of
France, and intended to keep some of her land. What is she telling them
now? I don't know. Something to her advantage and their disadvantage, you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: At this moment, I saw the captain come from an opening in the rocks,
probably a grotto, at the base of this cliff hidden in the fog.
Occasionally, in the mists above, appeared the shadows of huge birds.
Their raucous cries were the sole interruption to the profound
silence. Who knows if they were not affrighted by the arrival of this
formidable, winged monster, which they could not match either in
might or speed.
Everything led me to believe that it was here that the Master of the
World withdrew in the intervals between his prodigious journeys. Here
was the garage of his automobile; the harbor of his boat; the hangar
of his air-ship.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: cleaned up five hunderd dollars in a little real estate
dicker down in Susanville. I'd do anything I could to
free the lady, but it out-sizes my pile."
"Could you stand one thousand two hundred dollars?"
asked the lawyer, insinuatingly.
"Five hundred is my limit, I tell you. Guess I'll
have to hunt up a cheaper lawyer." The client put on
his hat.
"Out this way, please," said Lawyer Gooch, opening
the door that led into the hallway.
As the gentleman flowed out of the compartment and
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