| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain: quaint little scholar she is, and makes plenty of blunders. Once I
put the question:
"What does the Czar govern?"
She rested her elbow on her knee and her chin on her hand and took
that problem under deep consideration. Presently she looked up and
answered, with a rising inflection implying a shade of uncertainty,
"The dative case?"
Here are a couple of her expositions which were delivered with
tranquil confidence:
"CHAPLAIN, diminutive of chap. LASS is masculine, LASSIE is
feminine."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: English broke their ranks. If you wish to refresh your memories,
read the tale once more in Mr. Freeman's "History of England," or
Professor Creasy's " Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World," or
even, best of all, the late Lord Lytton's splendid romance of
"Harold." And when you go to England, go, as some of you may have
gone already, to Battle; and there from off the Abbey grounds, or
from Mountjoye behind, look down off what was then "The Heathy
Field," over the long slopes of green pasture and the rich hop-
gardens, where were no hop-gardens then, and the flat tide-marshes
winding between the wooded heights, towards the southern sea; and
imagine for yourselves the feelings of an Englishman as he
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: Nothing definite had been alleged, but some of the members
of the Committee had been informally notified, so Semple
had this morning learned, that a specific charge of fraud,
supported by unanswerable proof, was to be brought
against the Rubber Consols management on the morrow.
Thorpe reasoned out now, step by step, what that meant.
Lord Plowden had sought out Rostocker and Aronson, and had
told them that he had it in his power ignominiously to break
the "corner." He could hardly have told them the exact nature
of his power, because until he should have seen Tavender
he did not himself know what it was. But he had given
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