| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie: about."
"Dr. Bauerstein's arrest, of course," I answered impatiently.
"Is Bauerstein arrested, then?"
"Did you not know it?"
"Not the least in the world." But, pausing a moment, he added:
"Still, it does not surprise me. After all, we are only four
miles from the coast."
"The coast?" I asked, puzzled. "What has that got to do with
it?"
Poirot shrugged his shoulders.
"Surely, it is obvious!"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: the room in some heat. The bishop told me this was his usual
discourse, and that he had checked him formerly for taking so
indecent a liberty, but he found it was to no purpose."
The impostor's conversation on this occasion furnishes the key-
note of a vile plot now contrived to intercept the lawful
succession, either by effectually removing the queen, and thereby
enabling the king to marry again; or otherwise excluding the Duke
of York by act of parliament from lawful right to the crown.
Though Shaftesbury's hand was not plainly seen, there can be no
doubt it was busily employed in working out his favourite design.
The blow was first aimed at her majesty by Bedlow, who, on the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: too may sometimes appear useful in the acquisition of virtue, e.g. when
hearing is procured by the aid of medicine.
CRITIAS: Very likely.
SOCRATES: But if, again, we obtain by wealth the aid of medicine, shall we
not regard wealth as useful for virtue?
CRITIAS: True.
SOCRATES: And also the instruments by which wealth is procured?
CRITIAS: Certainly.
SOCRATES: Then you think that a man may gain wealth by bad and disgraceful
means, and, having obtained the aid of medicine which enables him to
acquire the power of hearing, may use that very faculty for the acquisition
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