| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: lived there. And when Muller made such a decision it was usually
not very long before he carried it out.
The other street, upon which the main front of the mansard house
opened, contained a few isolated dwellings surrounded by gardens
and a number of newly built apartment houses. On the ground floor
of these latter houses were a number of stores and immediately
opposite the Thorne mansion was a little caf‚. This suited Muller
exactly, for he had been there before and he remembered that from
one of the windows there was an excellent view of the gate and the
front entrance of the mansion opposite. It was a very modest little
caf‚, but there was a fairly good wine to be had there and the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: she went on, with fury. "Thy other ancestors were shepherds, bandits,
conductors of caravans, a horde of slaves offered as tribute to King
David! My forefathers were the conquerors of thine! The first of the
Maccabees drove thy people out of Hebron; Hyrcanus forced them to be
circumcised!" Then, with all the contempt of the patrician for the
plebeian, the hatred of Jacob for Esau, she reproached him for his
indifference towards palpable outrages to his dignity, his weakness
regarding the Phoenicians, who had been false to him, and his cowardly
attitude towards the people who detested and insulted herself.
"But thou art like them!" she cried; "Dost regret the loss of the Arab
girl who danced upon these very pavements? Take her back! Go and live
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne: have been heard without difficulty. All was quiet. Besides, Top, lying on
the grass, his head stretched out on his paws, gave no sign of uneasiness.
At eight o'clock the day appeared far enough advanced for the
reconnaissance to be made under favorable conditions. Gideon Spilett
declared himself ready to set out accompanied by Pencroft. Cyrus Harding
consented. Top and Jup were to remain with the engineer, Herbert, and Neb,
for a bark or a cry at a wrong moment would give the alarm.
"Do not be imprudent," said Harding to the reporter and Pencroft, "you
have not to gain possession of the corral, but only to find out whether it
is occupied or not."
"All right," answered Pencroft.
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