| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: most uncertain, and this I send by skiff to Natchez to get it to you.
It is impossible to get accurate data as to past crops, etc., as
those who know much about the matter have gone, and those who remain
are not well versed in the production of this section.
General York desires me to say that the amount of rations
formerly sent should be duplicated and sent at once.
It is impossible to make any estimate, for the people are fleeing
to the hills, so rapid is the rise. The residents here are
in a state of commotion that can only be appreciated when seen,
and complete demoralization has set in,
If rations are drawn for any particular section hereabouts, they would
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: moved, and had listened to Ned Silverton reading Theocritus by
moonlight, as the yacht rounded the Sicilian promontories, with a
thrill of the nerves that confirmed her belief in her
intellectual superiority. But the weeks at Cannes and Nice had
really given her more pleasure. The gratification of being
welcomed in high company, and of making her own ascendency felt
there, so that she found herself figuring once more as the
"beautiful Miss Bart"in the interesting journal devoted to
recording the least movements of her cosmopolitan companions--all
these experiences tended to throw into the extreme background of
memory the prosaic and sordid difficulties from which she had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini: with it in the Mall, and had there remained him any character to lose,
he must assuredly have lost it then.
He observed his friend through narrowing eyes - he had small eyes, very
blue and very bright, in which there usually abode a roguish gleam.
"My sight, Anthony," said he, "reminds me that I am growing old. I
wonder did it mislead me on the score of your visitor?"
"The lady who left," said Wilding with a touch of severity, "will be
Mistress Wilding by this day se'night."
Trenchard took the pipe from his lips, audibly blew out a cloud of
smoke and stared at his friend. "Body o' me!" quoth he. "Is this a
time for marrying? - with these rumours of Monmouth's coming over."
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