| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: Shall be for me: and, to requite you further,
I will bestow some precepts of this virgin,
Worthy the note.
BOTH.
We'll take your offer kindly.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE 6. Camp before Florence.
[Enter BERTRAM, and the two French Lords.]
FIRST LORD.
Nay, good my lord, put him to't; let him have his way.
SECOND LORD.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: "But has Ayrton told the truth?" asked the sailor.
"Yes," replied the reporter. "The story which he has told is true in
every point. I remember quite well the account in the newspapers of the
yacht expedition undertaken by Lord Glenarvan, and its result."
"Ayrton has told the truth," added Harding. "Do not doubt it, Pencroft,
for it was painful to him. People tell the truth when they accuse
themselves like that!"
The next day--the 21st of December--the colonists descended to the beach,
and having climbed the plateau they found nothing of Ayrton. He had reached
his house in the corral during the night and the settlers judged it best
not to agitate him by their presence. Time would doubtless perform what
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac: But your brother, madame, has listened to reason--"
"Yes," said the old man, "when I make my will you shall not be
forgotten."
"Don't talk of these things, my dear brother; you do not yet know my
nature."
After such a beginning, it is easy to imagine how the visit went on.
Rouget invited his sister to dinner on the next day but one.
We may here mention that during these three days the Knights of
Idleness captured an immense quantity of rats and mice, which were
kept half-famished until they were let loose in the grain one fine
night, to the number of four hundred and thirty-six, of which some
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