| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: upon with favour.
To speak dispassionately, however, he was not a bad sort of
fellow--merely a star-gazer; and since the world contains many
watchers of the skies, why should Tientietnikov not have been one of
them? However, let me describe in detail a specimen day of his
existence--one that will closely resemble the rest, and then the
reader will be enabled to judge of Tientietnikov's character, and how
far his life corresponded to the beauties of nature with which he
lived surrounded.
On the morning of the specimen day in question he awoke very late,
and, raising himself to a sitting posture, rubbed his eyes. And since
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: "You may well say that," cried the old overman, with a feeling of pride
in his beloved mine; "for nothing less than a sea would have drowned
our Aberfoyle. But, once more, what possible interest could any human
being have in the destruction of our works?"
"It is quite incomprehensible," replied James Starr. "This case is
something perfectly unlike that of a band of common criminals, who,
concealing themselves in dens and caves, go forth to rob and pillage
the surrounding country. The evil deeds of such men would certainly,
in the course of three years have betrayed their existence and
lurking-places. Neither can it be, as I sometimes used to think,
that smugglers or coiners carried on their illegal practices
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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: way as may sufficiently instruct me to put any of them in
practice." Amongst these are enumerated false decks, such as in
a moment should kill and take prisoners as many as should board
the ship, without blowing her up, and in a quarter of an hour's
time should recover their former shape without discovering the
secret; a portable fortification, able to contain five hundred
men, which in the space of six hours might be set up, and made
cannon-proof; a dexterous tinder-box which served as a pistol,
and was yet capable of lighting a fire or candle at any hour of
the night without giving its possessor the trouble of stretching
his hand from bed; a lock, the ways of opening which might be
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