The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: "Newmark," Orde began abruptly at last, "I know all about this
deal."
"What deal?" asked Newmark, after a barely perceptible pause.
"This arrangement you made with Heinzman."
"I borrowed some money from Heinzman for the firm."
"Yes; and you supplied that money yourself."
Newmark's eyes narrowed, but he said nothing. Orde glanced toward
him, then away again, as though ashamed.
"Well," said Newmark at last, "what of it?"
"If you had the money to lend why didn't you lend it direct?"
"Because it looks better to mortgage to an outside holder."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: called "controversial." I cannot but feel that this was a gain, rather
than a loss; because it forced me, if I wished to give any
interpretation at all of Alexandrian thought, any Theodicy at all of her
fate, to refer to laws which I cannot but believe to be deeper, wider,
more truly eternal than the points which cause most of our modern
controversies, either theological or political; laws which will, I
cannot but believe also, reassert themselves, and have to be reasserted
by all wise teachers, very soon indeed, and it may be under most novel
embodiments, but without any change in their eternal spirit.
For I may say, I hope, now (what if said ten years ago would have only
excited laughter), that I cannot but subscribe to the opinion of the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: some five desyatins of glade to be deducted. And he'll let it
go for eight thousand. Three thousand cash down. That'll move
him, no fear!' he thought, and he pressed his pocket-book with
his forearm.
'God only knows how we missed the turning. The forest ought to
be there, and a watchman's hut, and dogs barking. But the
damned things don't bark when they're wanted.' He turned his
collar down from his ear and listened, but as before only the
whistling of the wind could be heard, the flapping and
fluttering of the kerchief tied to the shafts, and the pelting
of the snow against the woodwork of the sledge. He again
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