| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Historical Mystery by Honore de Balzac: bricks on which the bread was baked would show their jointed lines on
the bottom of the loaves, and thus afford a proof that the bread
supplied to him was baked on that particular oven. So with the wine
brought in bottles sealed with green wax, which would probably be
found identical with other bottles in Michu's cellar. These shrewd
observations, which Malin imparted to the justice of peace, who made
the first examination (taking Marthe with him), led to the results
foreseen by the senator.
Marthe, deceived by the apparent friendliness of Lechesneau and the
public prosecutor, who assured her that complete confession could
alone save her husband's life, admitted that the cavern where the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: detonation of the latter would fire the hydrogen within the
gas-bag or bags, in which event the airship would fall to earth a
tangled wreck. Even if the airship were inflated with a
non-inflammable gas--the Germans claim that their Zeppelins now
are so inflated--the damage wrought by the bomb would be so
severe as to destroy the airship's buoyancy, and it would be
forced to the ground.
The alternative is very much more desperate. It involves ramming
the dirigible. This is undoubtedly possible owing to the speed
and facile control of the aeroplane, but whether the operation
would be successful remains to be proved. The aeroplane would be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: He gazed off a moment into space. "Hm. `Leon Sammett in Songs.
Miss Terry Sheehan at the Piano.' That doesn't sound bad. Now
listen, Miss Sheehan. I'm singing down at the University Inn.
The Gottschalk song hits. I guess you know my work. But I want
to talk to you, private. It's something to your interest. I go
on down at the Inn at six. Will you come and have a little
something with Ruby and me? Now?"
"Now?" faltered Terry, somewhat helplessly. Things seemed to
be moving rather swiftly for her, accustomed as she was to the
peaceful routine of the past four years.
"Get your hat. It's your life chance. Wait till you see your
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