The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "it is their thinking that they have a right to do it--."
"I never saw such a young lady as you are for not 'recognizing.'
I have no doubt the thing is BEASTLY, but it saves a lot of trouble."
"It makes a lot of trouble. It's horrid," said Bessie.
"But how would you have the first people go?" asked Lord Lambeth.
"They can't go last."
"Whom do you mean by the first people?"
"Ah, if you mean to question first principles!" said Lord Lambeth.
"If those are your first principles, no wonder some of your arrangements
are horrid," observed Bessie Alden with a very pretty ferocity.
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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: backs. Although necessarily of limited radius, such an
installation is adequate for communication within the restricted
range of air-craft.
Greater difficulties have to be overcome in the mounting of a
wireless installation upon a dirigible. When the Zeppelin was
finally accepted by the German Government, the military
authorities emphasised the great part which wireless telegraphy
was destined to play in connection with such craft. But have
these anticipations been fulfilled? By no means, as a little
reflection will suffice to prove.
In the first place, a wireless outfit is about the most dangerous
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Village Rector by Honore de Balzac: handkerchief knotted by the four corners. This handkerchief, from
which the water was instantly wrung, was thrown into a great fire of
drift wood already lighted. Denise did not leave the fire until she
saw every particle of the handkerchief consumed. The second sum was
wrapped in a shawl, the third in a cambric handkerchief; these
wrappings were instantly burned like the foulard.
Just as Denise was throwing the wrapping of the fourth and last
package into the fire the gendarmes, accompanied by the commissary of
police, seized that incriminating article, which Denise let them take
without manifesting the least emotion. It was a handkerchief, on
which, in spite of its soaking in the river, traces of blood could
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