| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: 'O, is that all?' interrupted Julia. 'Then we must go all three.'
'Caught!' thought the Squirradical.
CHAPTER XII. Positively the Last Appearance of the Broadwood
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England is supposed to be unmusical; but without dwelling on the
patronage extended to the organ-grinder, without seeking to found
any argument on the prevalence of the jew's trump, there is
surely one instrument that may be said to be national in the
fullest acceptance of the word. The herdboy in the broom, already
musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps
pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe; and in the hands of the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: turning her horse's head to the righthand side of the road
to pass the party, all of whom were in uniform; but as she
did so one of the men reined directly in her path. The act
was obviously intentional.
The girl looked quickly up into the man's face, and her
own went white. He who stopped her way was Captain
Ernst Maenck. She had not seen the man for two years, but
she had good cause to remember him as the governor of the
castle of Blentz and the man who had attempted to take
advantage of her helplessness when she had been a prisoner
in Prince Peter's fortress. Now she looked straight into the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin: than that they made a mistake; for rectangular furrows on
the forehead would not have had a grand appearance on the marble.
The expression, in its fully developed condition, is, as far
as I can discover, not often represented in pictures by
the old masters, no doubt owing to the same cause; but a lady
who is perfectly familiar with this expression, informs me
that in Fra Angelico's `Descent from the Cross,' in Florence,
it is clearly exhibited in one of the figures on the right-hand;
and I could add a few other instances.
Dr. Crichton Browne, at my request, closely attended to this
expression in the numerous insane patients under his care
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