| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair: registered in the public records, do you believe that she will
find it easy to re-marry later on?"
"She will never re-marry," said the father.
"She says that today, but can you affirm that she will say the
same thing five years from now, ten years from now? I tell you
you will not obtain that divorce, because I will most certainly
refuse you the necessary certificate."
"Then," cried the other, "I will find other means of establishing
proofs. I will have the child examined by another doctor!"
The other answered. "Then you do not find that that poor little
one has been already sufficiently handicapped at the outset of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: within this wide land shall fall. They shall be slain, their
cities shall be stamped flat, their wealth shall be wrung from
them, and their children shall eat the bread of slavery and drink
the water of affliction. Choose, ye people of the Otomie. Will
you stand by the men of your own customs and country, though they
have been your foes at times, or will you throw in your lot with
the stranger? Choose, ye people of the Otomie, and know this, that
on your choice and that of the other men of Anahuac, depends the
fate of Anahuac. I am your princess, and you should obey me, but
to-day I issue no command. I say choose between the alliance of
the Aztec and the yoke of the Teule, and may the god above the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: neighbours, had come to regard as a plague of birds. At last he
recalled a circumstance which promised a solution of the difficulty.
The experience was of some years ago in China, far up-country,
towards the head-waters of the Yang-tze-kiang, where the smaller
tributaries spread out in a sort of natural irrigation scheme to
supply the wilderness of paddy-fields. It was at the time of the
ripening rice, and the myriads of birds which came to feed on the
coming crop was a serious menace, not only to the district, but to
the country at large. The farmers, who were more or less afflicted
with the same trouble every season, knew how to deal with it. They
made a vast kite, which they caused to be flown over the centre spot
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