| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: better anyway. I'll tuck him in," and she bent fondly over the
crib, but Alfred was not to be so easily pacified.
"Do you mean to tell me," he exclaimed excitedly, "that my boy
hasn't any nurse?"
"We HAD a nurse," corrected Zoie, "but--but I had to discharge
her."
Alfred glanced from one to the other for an explanation.
"Discharge her?" he repeated, "for what?"
"She was crazy," stammered Zoie.
Alfred's eyes sought Aggie's for confirmation. She nodded. He
directed his steady gaze toward Jimmy. The latter jerked his
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War by Frederick A. Talbot: innumerable. This is especially the case where the aeroplane is
of the tractive type, that is to say where the propellers are
placed in the forefront of the machine and in their revolution
serve to draw the machine forward. All other considerations must
necessarily be sacrificed to the mounting of the propeller.
Consequently it is by no means easy to allot a position for the
installation of a gun, or if such should be found there is grave
risk of the angle of fire being severely restricted. In fact, in
many instances the mounting of a gun is out of the question: it
becomes a greater menace to the machine than to the enemy.
The French aeronautical section of the military department
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: deals very successfully with most of the evidence given against
him and exposes the unquestionable weakness of the Crown case.
At the outset he declared that he had taken his innocence for his
defence. "I was not willing," he said, "to leave my life in the
hands of a stranger. I was willing to incur all the
disadvantages which the knowledge of the law might bring upon me.
I was willing, also, to enter on this case without any experience
whatever of that peculiarly acquired art of cross-examination. I
fear I have done wrong. If I had had the assistance of able
counsel, much more light would have been thrown on this case
than has been." As we have seen, Butler enjoyed throughout his
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