| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: while many of them adopted its use, for, as Granger remarks, "it
was observed that a periwig procured many persons a respect and
even veneration which they mere strangers to before, and to which
they had not the least claim from their personal merit."
Amongst other strange innovations and various improvements known
in this reign, the introduction of a penny post may be considered
the most useful. King James I., of happy memory, had, in
imitation of like regulations in other countries, established a
general post for foreign parts; King Charles I. had given orders
to Thomas Witherings, Esquire, his postmaster-general, to settle
"a running post or two, to run night and day between Edinburgh,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: car for down town. A few minutes later I was in the big tent, where I had
overhauled Red Denny. King Wallace was doing his turn and holding the audience
spellbound. He was in a particularly vicious mood, and he kept the lions
stirred up till they were all snarling, that is, all of them except old
Augustus, and he was just too fat and lazy and old to get stirred up over
anything.
"Finally Wallace cracked the old lion's knees with his whip and got him into
position. Old Augustus, blinking good-naturedly, opened his mouth and in
popped Wallace's head. Then the jaws came together, CRUNCH, just like that."
The Leopard Man smiled in a sweetly wistful fashion, and the far-away look
came into his eyes.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: Vitellius beckoned him to his side and gave him an order for the
execution, to be transmitted to the soldiers placed on guard over the
dungeon. This execution would be a relief, he thought. In a few
moments all would be over!
But for once Mannaeus did not perform a commission satisfactorily. He
left the hall but soon returned, in a state of great perturbation.
During forty years he had exercised the functions of the public
executioner. It was he that had drowned Aristobulus, strangled
Alexander, burned Mattathias alive, beheaded Zozimus, Pappus,
Josephus, and Antipater; but he dared not kill Iaokanann! His teeth
chattered and his whole body trembled.
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