| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe: The other part of this corn-trade was from Lynn, in Norfolk, from
Wells and Burnham, and from Yarmouth, all in the same county; and
the third branch was from the river Medway, and from Milton,
Feversham, Margate, and Sandwich, and all the other little places and
ports round the coast of Kent and Essex.
There was also a very good trade from the coast of Suffolk with
corn, butter, and cheese; these vessels kept a constant course of trade,
and without interruption came up to that market known still by the
name of Bear Key, where they supplied the city plentifully with corn
when land-carriage began to fail, and when the people began to be
sick of coming from many places in the country.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Hero of Our Time by M.Y. Lermontov: has understood me completely. Some will con-
sider me worse, others, better, than I have been
in reality. . . Some will say: 'he was a good
fellow'; others: 'a villain.' And both epithets
will be false. After all this, is life worth the
trouble? And yet we live -- out of curiosity!
We expect something new. . . How absurd,
and yet how vexatious!
CHAPTER XIX
IT is now a month and a half since I have
been in the N---- Fortress.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: you rail at the forest laws by the hour?"
"Did you ever hear me," said the baron, "rail myself out of house and land?
If I had done that, then were I a knave."
"My lover," said Matilda, "is a brave man, and a true man, and a generous man,
and a young man, and a handsome man; aye, and an honest man too."
"How can he be an honest man," said the baron, "when he has neither
house nor land, which are the better part of a man?"
"They are but the husk of a man," said Matilda, "the worthless coat
of the chesnut: the man himself is the kernel."
"The man is the grape stone," said the baron, "and the pulp of the melon.
The house and land are the true substantial fruit, and all that give him
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