| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: too, and I intend to tell it presently."
"Oh--I have a secret. I was crazy to tell you when you came back.
That's why I was so silly about everything. I kept holding my
secret back--gloating over it. But when Lassiter came I got an
idea--that changed my mind. Then I hated to tell you."
"Are you going to now?"
"Yes--yes. I was coming to it. I tried yesterday, but you were so
cold. I was afraid. I couldn't keep it much longer."
"Very well, most mysterious lady, tell your wonderful secret."
"You needn't laugh," she retorted, with a first glimpse of
reviving spirit. "I can take the laugh out of you in one second."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 2 by Alexis de Toqueville: centred in his own hands almost all the administrative power of
France; for, after the abrupt disappearance of the nobility and
the higher rank of the middle classes, these powers devolved on
him of course: it would have been almost as difficult for him to
reject as to assume them. But no necessity of this kind has ever
been felt by the Americans, who, having passed through no
revolution, and having governed themselves from the first, never
had to call upon the State to act for a time as their guardian.
Thus the progress of centralization amongst a democratic people
depends not only on the progress of equality, but on the manner
in which this equality has been established.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: deliver parcels and letters not exceeding one pound in weight nor
ten pounds in value. Stamps were used as an acknowledgment that
postage was paid, and likewise to mark the hours when letters
were sent out from the offices, by which, in case of delay, its
cause might be traced to the messengers; and deliveries took
place ten times in the vicinity of the Exchange and Inns of
Court, and four times in the suburbs daily. All persons were
requested to post their communications before six o'clock in the
winter, and seven in the summer, on Saturday nights, "that the
many poor men employed may have a little time to provide for
their families against the Lord's Day." And it was moreover
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