| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: [7] See Becker, op. cit. p. 434 f; Holden cf. Athen. ix. 374, xii.
525; Ael. "V. H." xii. 32; Aristoph. "Plut." 533.
She caught me up at once: "Hush, hush!" she said, "talk not such talk.
May heaven forfend that you should ever be like that. I could not love
you with my whole heart were you really of that sort."
"And are we two not come together," I continued, "for a closer
partnership, being each a sharer in the other's body?"
"That, at any rate, is what folk say," she answered.
"Then as regards this bodily relation," I proceeded, "should you
regard me as more lovable or less did I present myself, my one
endeavour and my sole care being that my body should be hale and
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: the world.
LADY WINDERMERE. No relations? [A pause.]
LORD WINDERMERE. None.
LADY WINDERMERE. Rather curious, isn't it? [L.]
LORD WINDERMERE. [L.C.] Margaret, I was saying to you - and I beg
you to listen to me - that as far as I have known Mrs. Erlynne, she
has conducted herself well. If years ago -
LADY WINDERMERE. Oh! [Crossing R.C.] I don't want details about
her life!
LORD WINDERMERE. [C.] I am not going to give you any details
about her life. I tell you simply this - Mrs. Erlynne was once
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King Henry VI by William Shakespeare: [Exeunt all but Bedford and Attendants.]
[An alarum: excursions. Enter Sir John Fastolfe
and a Captain.]
CAPTAIN.
Whither away, Sir John Fastolfe, in such haste?
FASTOLFE.
Whither away! to save myself by flight:
We are like to have the overthrow again.
CAPTAIN.
What! Will you fly, and leave Lord Talbot?
FASTOLFE.
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