| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: privacy very much more than we do, they resent invasions of it very much
more than we do. But, let me say again, they are likely to mind it only
in somebody they think knows the rules. With those who don't know them it
is different. I say this with all the more certainty because of a fairly
recent afternoon spent in an English garden with English friends. The
question of pronunciation came up. Now you will readily see that with
them and their compactness, their great public schools, their two great
Universities, and their great London, the one eternal focus of them all,
both the chance of diversity in social customs and the tolerance of it
must be far less than in our huge unfocused country. With us, Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, is each a centre. Here you
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: us and the cart out of the water, but Mamma, I am done with Barney now too.
He's not to be trusted either."
Mrs. Gerald thought of two or three things that might be urged in Barney's
favor, but it did not seem kind even to attempt to reason with two such tired
and soaking little specimens, so she only said, "Well, Barney can never again
be trusted in the ford, that's one sure thing."
"No, indeed," said Mabel warmly; "I would not give fifty cents for him."
"You can have him for nothing," said Tattine, with a wan little smile; "after
this he can never be trusted in anything."
CHAPTER VI. "IT IS THEIR NATURE TO."
Tattine was getting on beautifully with her attempt to use Grandma Luty's name
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: had completely disappeared, read as follows: --
"The French officer in the service of Ali Pasha of Yanina
alluded to three weeks since in the Impartial, who not only
surrendered the castle of Yanina, but sold his benefactor to
the Turks, styled himself truly at that time Fernand, as our
esteemed contemporary states; but he has since added to his
Christian name a title of nobility and a family name. He now
calls himself the Count of Morcerf, and ranks among the
peers."
Thus the terrible secret, which Beauchamp had so generously
destroyed, appeared again like an armed phantom; and another
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