| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: the Pug, and therefore must have believed that I, too, know all
about it."
"Yes," she said, and turned her head away to hide the color she felt
was mounting to her cheeks. "I - I thought of that. But I thought
you were a thief, and - and your testimony wouldn't have been much
good unless, with it, I could have handed you, too, over to the
police, as I intended to do with Danglar; and - and - I - I couldn't
do that, and - Oh, don't you see?" she ended desperately.
"Rhoda! Rhoda!" There was a glad, buoyant note in the Adventurer's
voice. "Yes, I see! Well, I can prove it for you now without any
of those fears on my behalf to worry you! I went to Skarbolov's
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: force with freedom, no happiness with equality. Let us hope that
before that day comes God may raise up in France a providential man,
one of those Elect who give a new mind to nations, and like Sylla or
like Marius, whether he comes from above or rises from below, remakes
society."
"He would be sent to the assizes," said Gerard. "The sentence
pronounced against Socrates and Jesus Christ would be rendered against
them in 1831. In these days as in the old days, envious mediocrity
lets thinkers die of poverty, and so gets rid of the great political
physicians who have studied the wounds of France, and who oppose the
tendencies of their epoch. If they bear up under poverty, common minds
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Straight Deal by Owen Wister: foil the landing in Ireland of Germany, whom Ireland had invited there.
Were England seeking to break loose from Ireland, she could sue Ireland
for a divorce and name the Kaiser as co-respondent. Any court would grant
it.
The part of Ireland which does not desire independence, which desires it
so little that it was ready to resist Home Rule by force in 1914, is the
steady, thrifty, clean, coherent, prosperous part of Ireland. It is the
other, the unstable part of Ireland, which has declared Ireland to be a
Republic. For convenience I will designate this part as Green Ireland,
and the thrifty, stable part as Orange Ireland. So when our politicians
sympathize with an "Irish" Republic, they befriend merely Green
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