| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: sense, child. This comes of your reading your story-
books; your Charles Grandisons, your Sentimental
Journals, and your Robinson Crusoes, and such other
trumpery. No, no, no! child; it is money makes the
mare go; keep your eye upon the main chance, Mary.
MARIA
Marriage, Sir, is, indeed, a very serious affair.
VAN ROUGH
You are right, child; you are right. I am sure I
found it so, to my cost.
MARIA
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: still held the significant position of Mulinuu, and Brandeis was
strenuous to make it good. The whole peninsula was surrounded with
a breastwork; across the isthmus it was six feet high and
strengthened with a ditch; and the beach was staked against
landing. Weber's land claim - the same that now broods over the
village in the form of a signboard - then appeared in a more
military guise; the German flag was hoisted, and German sailors
manned the breastwork at the isthmus - "to protect German property"
and its trifling parenthesis, the king of Samoa. Much vigilance
reigned and, in the island fashion, much wild firing. And in spite
of all, desertion was for a long time daily. The detained high
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Crisis in Russia by Arthur Ransome: This year similar stations are being built at
Ivano-Voznesensk and at Nijni-Novgorod. Also, with a
view to making the most economic use of what we already
possess, we have finished both in Petrograd and in Moscow
a general unification of all the private power-stations, which
now supply their current to a single main cable. Similar
unification is nearly finished at Tula and at Kostroma. The
big water-power station on the rapids of the Volkhov is
finished in so far as land construction goes, but we can
proceed no further until we have obtained the turbines,
which we hope to get from abroad. As you know, we are
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