| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson: and Catriona, only show; in the second, the Appin case being
disposed of, and James Stewart hung, they rule the roast and
usurp the interest - should there be any left. Why did I
take up DAVID BALFOUR? I don't know. A sudden passion.
Monday, I went down in the rain with a colic to take the
chair at a public meeting; dined with Haggard; sailed off to
my meeting, and fought with wild beasts for three anxious
hours. All was lost that any sensible man cared for, but the
meeting did not break up - thanks a good deal to R. L. S. -
and the man who opposed my election, and with whom I was all
the time wrangling, proposed the vote of thanks to me with a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: it does from that to the idea that mustard costs a penny a tin--I
bought some the other day for a ham I had. It came into my head
that it would be ripping good business to use horseradish to
adulterate mustard. I had a sort of idea that I could plunge
into business on that, get rich and come back to my own proper
monumental art again. And then I said, 'But why adulterate? I
don't like the idea of adulteration.'"
"Shabby," said my uncle, nodding his head. "Bound to get found
out!"
"And totally unnecessary, too! Why not do up a
mixture--three-quarters pounded horseradish and a quarter
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: "how Mr Musgrove and my brother Hayter had met again and again
to talk it over; what my brother Hayter had said one day,
and what Mr Musgrove had proposed the next, and what had occurred
to my sister Hayter, and what the young people had wished, and what
I said at first I never could consent to, but was afterwards persuaded
to think might do very well," and a great deal in the same style
of open-hearted communication: minutiae which, even with every advantage
of taste and delicacy, which good Mrs Musgrove could not give,
could be properly interesting only to the principals. Mrs Croft
was attending with great good-humour, and whenever she spoke at all,
it was very sensibly. Anne hoped the gentlemen might each be
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