| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: "Tell me, Vivienne," he asked, regarding her keenly,
"is there another -- is there some one else ?"
A rosy flush crept slowly over her fair cheeks and
neck.
"You shouldn't ask that, Mr. Hartley," she said, in
some confusion. "But I will tell you. There is one
other -- but he has no right -- I have promised him
nothing."
"His name?" demanded Hartley, sternly.
"Townsend."
"Rafford Townsend!" exclaimed Hartley, with a grim
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Father Goriot by Honore de Balzac: lady of the first visit.
A few days later, and another young lady--a tall, well-moulded
brunette, with dark hair and bright eyes--came to ask for M.
Goriot.
"Three of them!" said Sylvie.
Then the second daughter, who had first come in the morning to
see her father, came shortly afterwards in the evening. She wore
a ball dress, and came in a carriage.
"Four of them!" commented Mme. Vauquer and her plump handmaid.
Sylvie saw not a trace of resemblance between this great lady and
the girl in her simple morning dress who had entered her kitchen
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: [19] See "Anab." IV. iii. 29; "Pol. Lac." xi. 10.
[20] 2,437 pounds: 10 shillings. See Busult, op. cit. p. 199.
[21] Lit. "perioeci"; and below, SS. 25, 32.
B.C. 370-369. The Arcadians, now that Agesilaus had retired, realising
that he had disbanded his troops, while they themselves were fully
mustered, marched upon Heraea, the citizens of which town had not only
refused to join the Arcadian league, but had joined the Lacedaemonians
in their invasion of Arcadia. For this reason they entered the
country, burning the homesteads and cutting down the fruit-trees.
Meanwhile news came of the arrival of the Theban reinforcements at
Mantinea, on the strength of which they left Heraea and hastened to
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