| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: side"; but the captain began to ask himself, "What next?" -
telegraphed direct home for instructions, "Is arrest of foreigners
on foreign vessels legal?" - and was ready, at a word from Captain
Hand, to discharge his dangerous prisoner. The word in question
(so the story goes) was not without a kind of wit. "I wish you
would set that man ashore," Hand is reported to have said,
indicating Gallien; "I wish you would set that man ashore, to save
me the trouble." The same day de Coetlogon published a
proclamation requesting captains to submit to search for contraband
of war.
On the 22nd the SAMOA TIMES AND SOUTH SEA ADVERTISER was suppressed
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: would have been like his preference of loyalty to law; it would
have been like his prejudice, which was all in favour of the
after-guard. But it must remain a matter of conjecture only.
Well as I came to know him in the sequel, he was never
communicative on that point, nor indeed on any that concerned
the voyage of the Gleaner. Doubtless he had some reason for
his reticence. Even during our walk to the police office, he
debated several times with Johnson, the third officer, whether
he ought not to give up himself, as well as to denounce the
captain. He had decided in the negative, arguing that "it would
probably come to nothing; and even if there was a stink, he had
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: paper was pure and enterprising and fearless, and make it so. "If
these are not good qualities," he reasoned, "it is folly to claim
them."
Under the new policy he got so many subscribers that his rivals
endeavoured to discover the secret of his prosperity, but he kept
it, and when he died it died with him.
The Ants and the Grasshopper
SOME Members of a Legislature were making schedules of their wealth
at the end of the session, when an Honest Miner came along and
asked them to divide with him. The members of the Legislature
inquired:
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