| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: accursed Allan Quatermain shall not succeed in his attempt to escape
to-morrow before the dawn."
"So be it," said the commandant. "Now, do all you who have heard those
words take note of them."
Then Hans, seeing that the council was about to break up, and fearing
lest he should be caught and killed, slipped away by the same road that
he had come. His thought was to warn me, but this he could not do
because of the guards. So he went to the Prinsloos, and finding the
vrouw alone with Marie, who had recovered her mind, told them everything
that he had heard.
As he said, Marie knelt down and prayed, or thought for a long while,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: on a Tuesday to three francs, on the Thursday to six, and on Friday
swept off, holus bolus, for the proprietor's private consumption.
Well, we had the start of that proprietor. Many a good bottle came
our way, and was, I think, worthily made welcome.
I am pleased that Mr. Gilder should like my literature; and I ask
you particularly to thank Mr. Bunner (have I the name right?) for
his notice, which was of that friendly, headlong sort that really
pleases an author like what the French call a 'shake-hands.' It
pleased me the more coming from the States, where I have met not
much recognition, save from the buccaneers, and above all from
pirates who misspell my name. I saw my book advertised in a number
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: workmen in Moscow, and therefore had a right to
representation in the government of the town. I asked about
the Chinese in the Red Army, and he said there were two or
three thousand, not more.
AN EX-CAPITALIST
February 13th.
I drank tea with an old acquaintance from the provinces, a
Russian who, before the revolution, owned a leather-bag
factory which worked in close connection with his uncle's
tannery. He gave me a short history of events at home. The
uncle had started with small capital, and during the war had
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