| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: hated and feared by all outlaws.
Knell waited a long moment, and then his face broke its cold
immobility in an extraordinary expression of devilish glee. He
had hounded the great Poggin into something that gave him
vicious, monstrous joy.
"BUCK DUANE! Yes," he broke out, hotly. "The Nueces gunman!
That two-shot, ace-of-spades lone wolf! You an' I--we've heard
a thousand times of him--talked about him often. An' here he IN
FRONT of you! Poggin, you were backin' Fletcher's new pard,
Buck Duane. An' he'd fooled you both but for me. But _I_ know
him. An' I know why he drifted in here. To flash a gun on
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: of far less importance that at present guards[9] are kept in private
life.
[9] "Police or other."
XI
But, Hiero, you must not grudge to spend a portion of your private
substance for the common weal. For myself, I hold to the opinion that
the sums expended by the monarch on the state form items of
disbursement more legitimate[1] than those expended on his personal
account. But let us look into the question point by point.
[1] {eis to deon}. Holden cf. "Anab." I. iii. 8. Aristoph. "Clouds,"
859, {osper Periklees eis to deon apolesa}: "Like Pericles, for a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson: "I would if I were you," some of his auditors would say, shaking the
head, sitting bewildered and confused at this new view of the matter, so
deftly indicated by a single word. "A capital idea!" they would add,
and wonder at the APLOMB and position of this young man, who talked as a
matter of course of writing to Hermiston and correcting him upon his
private affairs.
And Frank would proceed, sweetly confidential: "I'll give you an idea,
now. He's actually sore about the way that I'm received and he's left
out in the county - actually jealous and sore. I've rallied him and
I've reasoned with him, told him that every one was most kindly inclined
towards him, told him even that I was received merely because I was his
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