| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: you in the dark; I should have told you at first that I was
pledged to secrecy; I should have asked you to trust me in the
beginning. It is all I can do now. There is more of the story,
but it concerns none of us, and my tongue is tied. I have given
my word of honour. You must trust me and try to forgive me."
"I daresay I am very stupid, Mr. Dodd," began Mamie, with an
alarming sweetness, "but I thought you went upon this trip as
my husband's representative and with my husband's money?
You tell us now that you are pledged, but I should have thought
you were pledged first of all to James. You say it does not
concern us; we are poor people, and my husband is sick, and it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll: If I had but the time and you had but the brain--
But much yet remains to be said.
"In one moment I've seen what has hitherto been
Enveloped in absolute mystery,
And without extra charge I will give you at large
A Lesson in Natural History."
In his genial way he proceeded to say
(Forgetting all laws of propriety,
And that giving instruction, without introduction,
Would have caused quite a thrill in Society),
"As to temper the Jubjub's a desperate bird,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: together with any scars or other marks upon his person which
could assist in his identification. This device in some measure
defeated itself--since more than one man could be found to answer
the same general description. Hence many slaves could escape
by personating the owner of one set of papers; and this was often done
as follows: A slave, nearly or sufficiently answering the description
set forth in the papers, would borrow or hire them till by means of them
he could escape to a free State, and then, by mail or otherwise,
would return them to the owner. The operation was a hazardous one for
the lender as well as for the borrower. A failure on the part of
the fugitive to send back the papers would imperil his benefactor,
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