| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: of the innumerable kinds of merchandise which are ex-
changed between China, Central Asia, and Europe. The
authorities had therefore no fear with regard to admitting
the peasants of the valley of the Angara, and leaving a
desert between the invaders and the town.
Irkutsk is the residence of the governor-general of East-
ern Siberia. Below him acts a civil governor, in whose
hands is the administration of the province; a head of police,
who has much to do in a town where exiles abound; and,
lastly, a mayor, chief of the merchants, and a person of
some importance, from his immense fortune and the in-
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw: MRS WARREN. I'd put you out and pack you back to London pretty
soon if I saw any of your nonsense. My girl's little finger is
more to me than your whole body and soul. [Crofts receives this
with a sneering grin. Mrs Warren, flushing a little at her
failure to impose on him in the character of a theatrically
devoted mother, adds in a lower key] Make your mind easy: the
young pup has no more chance than you have.
CROFTS. Maynt a man take an interest in a girl?
MRS WARREN. Not a man like you.
CROFTS. How old is she?
MRS WARREN. Never you mind how old she is.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: stand between thee and me, and meet me man to man without weapon?
See, I throw me down mine own, and will meet thee with bare
hands." And as he spoke, he tossed the clog he held in his hand
back upon the cot.
"So be it," said Blunt, with great readiness, tossing down a
similar weapon which he himself held.
"Do not go, Myles," cried Gascoyne, "he is a villain and a
traitor, and would betray thee to thy death. I saw him when he
first gat from bed hide a knife in his doublet."
"Thou liest!" said Blunt. "I swear, by my faith, I be barehanded
as ye see me! Thy friend accuses me, Myles Falworth, because he
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