| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from At the Sign of the Cat & Racket by Honore de Balzac: house in such order as to suggest no suspicious meaning to the
neighbors.
"Does it not seem to you, Mademoiselle Augustine," said the assistant,
and he trembled, "that the wife of a merchant whose credit is as good
as Monsieur Guillaume's, for instance, might enjoy herself a little
more than Madame your mother does? Might wear diamonds--or keep a
carriage? For my part, if I were to marry, I should be glad to take
all the work, and see my wife happy. I would not put her into the
counting-house. In the drapery business, you see, a woman is not so
necessary now as formerly. Monsieur Guillaume was quite right to act
as he did--and besides, his wife liked it. But so long as a woman
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: the President and the Senate, *r which tends in some degree to
detach the general foreign policy of the Union from the control
of the people. It cannot therefore be asserted with truth that
the external affairs of State are conducted by the democracy.
[Footnote r: "The President," says the Constitution, Art. II,
sect. 2, Section 2, "shall have power, by and with the advice and
consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of
the senators present concur." The reader is reminded that the
senators are returned for a term of six years, and that they are
chosen by the legislature of each State.]
The policy of America owes its rise to Washington, and after
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: on board of the SMEATON about ten o'clock p.m., and sailed
from Arbroath with a gentle breeze at west. Our ship's
colours having been flying all day in compliment to the
commencement of the work, the other vessels in the harbour
also saluted, which made a very gay appearance. A number of
the friends and acquaintances of those on board having been
thus collected, the piers, though at a late hour, were
perfectly crowded, and just as the SMEATON cleared the
harbour, all on board united in giving three hearty cheers,
which were returned by those on shore in such good earnest,
that, in the still of the evening, the sound must have been
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