| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson: besides, the remark arose naturally, on a re-perusal of the letter
which was the next step in these affairs, and reached me, to my
sincere astonishment, by a private hand, some week or so after the
departure of the last messenger.
Letter from Colonel BURKE (afterwards Chevalier) to MR. MACKELLAR.
TROYES IN CHAMPAGNE,
July 12, 1756
My Dear Sir, - You will doubtless be surprised to receive a
communication from one so little known to you; but on the occasion
I had the good fortune to rencounter you at Durrisdeer, I remarked
you for a young man of a solid gravity of character: a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: has had enough of active life, he abdicates, and his eldest son
reigns in his stead.
From that moment he ceases to belong to the body politic in any
active sense. Not that he is no longer a member of society nor
unamenable to its general laws, but that he has become a respectable
declasse, as it were. He has entered, so to speak, the social
nirvana, a not unfitting first step, as he regards it, toward
entering the eventual nirvana beyond. Such abdication now takes
place without particular cause. After a certain time of life, and
long before a man grows old, it is the fashion thus to make one's bow.
Chapter 4. Language.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: the tough old warrior and Myles's passionate exuberance of youth.
At the head of the party rode the Earl and his brother side by
side, each clad cap-a-pie in a suit of Milan armor, the cuirass
of each covered with a velvet juppon embroidered in silver with
the arms and quarterings of the Beaumonts. The Earl wore around
his neck an "S S" collar, with a jewelled St. George hanging from
it, and upon his head a vizored bascinet, ornamented with a
wreath covered with black and yellow velvet and glistening with
jewels.
Lord George, as was said before, was clad in a beautiful suit of
ribbed Milan armor. It was rimmed with a thin thread of gold,
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