| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: "I had a row with a chap," the Briton continued. He's my best friend now.
He made me put raw beefsteak--"
"I thank you," interrupted Juno. "He requires no beefsteak, raw or
cooked."
The face of the Briton reddened. "Too groggy to eat, is he?"
Mrs. Trevise tinkled her bell. "Daphne! I have said to you twice to hand
those yams."
"I done handed 'em twice, ma'am."
"Hand them right away, Daphne, and don't be so forgetful." It was not
easy to disturb the composure of Mrs. Trevise.
The poetess now took up the broken thread. "Had I a son," she declared,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: "I have King Henry's commission," said the knight, "to apprehend this
earl that was. How would you advise me to act, being, as you see,
without attendant force?"
"I would advise you," said young Gamwell, "to take yourself off without delay,
unless you would relish the taste of a volley of arrows, a shower of stones,
and a hailstorm of cudgel-blows, which would not be turned aside by a God
save King Henry."
Sir Ralph's squire no sooner heard this, and saw by the looks
of the speaker that he was not likely to prove a false prophet,
than he clapped spurs to his horse and galloped off with might
and main. This gave the knight a good excuse to pursue him,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin: cases, in which two pure species can be united with unusual facility, and
produce numerous hybrid-offspring, yet these hybrids are remarkably
sterile. On the other hand, there are species which can be crossed very
rarely, or with extreme difficulty, but the hybrids, when at last produced,
are very fertile. Even within the limits of the same genus, for instance
in Dianthus, these two opposite cases occur.
The fertility, both of first crosses and of hybrids, is more easily
affected by unfavourable conditions, than is the fertility of pure species.
But the degree of fertility is likewise innately variable; for it is not
always the same when the same two species are crossed under the same
circumstances, but depends in part upon the constitution of the individuals
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