| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Legend of Montrose by Walter Scott: ULTIMUM ET UNICUM REMEDIUM, the last and only remedy."
Leaving it to casuists to determine whether one contracting party
is justified in breaking a solemn treaty, upon the suspicion
that, in certain future contingencies, it might be infringed by
the other, we shall proceed to mention two other circumstances
that had at least equal influence with the Scottish rulers and
nation, with any doubts which they entertained of the King's good
faith.
The first of these was the nature and condition of their army;
headed by a poor and discontented nobility, under whom it was
officered chiefly by Scottish soldiers of fortune, who had served
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Tales and Fantasies by Robert Louis Stevenson: there was the reference to John's original flight - a subject
which he always kept resolutely curtained in his own mind;
for he was a man who loved to have made no mistakes, and when
he feared he might have made one kept the papers sealed. In
view of all these surprises and reminders, and of his son's
composed and masterful demeanour, there began to creep on Mr.
Nicholson a sickly misgiving. He seemed beyond his depth; if
he did or said anything, he might come to regret it. The
young man, besides, as he had pointed out himself, was
playing a generous part. And if wrong had been done - and
done to one who was, after, and in spite of, all, a Nicholson
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: Sunday morning.
His first attention was given to the question, privately
considered, of whether one of the two younger men would be Henry
St. George. He knew many of his distinguished contemporaries by
their photographs, but had never, as happened, seen a portrait of
the great misguided novelist. One of the gentlemen was
unimaginable - he was too young; and the other scarcely looked
clever enough, with such mild undiscriminating eyes. If those eyes
were St. George's the problem, presented by the ill-matched parts
of his genius would be still more difficult of solution. Besides,
the deportment of their proprietor was not, as regards the lady in
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