| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: Chase.' Following her, they passed through the fine Tudor hall
into the library, a long, low room, panelled in black oak, at the
end of which was a large stained-glass window. Here they found tea
laid out for them, and, after taking off their wraps, they sat down
and began to look round, while Mrs. Umney waited on them.
Suddenly Mrs. Otis caught sight of a dull red stain on the floor
just by the fireplace and, quite unconscious of what it really
signified, said to Mrs. Umney, 'I am afraid something has been
spilt there.'
'Yes, madam,' replied the old housekeeper in a low voice, 'blood
has been spilt on that spot.'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: (lit. "the rest of animals").
[6] {ta kunidia} possibly implies "performing poodles."
[7] {te gnome . . . te glotte}, i.e. mental impression and expression,
"mind and tongue."
[8] Or, "to run round and round and turn heels over head." Al. "dive
for objects."
[9] "Logic, argument." Or, "a creature more compliant; merely by a
word demonstrate to him . . ."
[10] Cf. Plat. "Rep." 591 C.
[11] See Pater, "Plato and Platonism," "Lacedaemon," p. 196 foll.
[12] See "Cyrop." passim.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: from the attempts of an assassin--
DIMPLE
Mighty well! Very fine, indeed! Ladies and gen-
tlemen, I take my leave; and you will please to observe
in the case of my deportment the contrast between a
gentleman who has read Chesterfield and received
the polish of Europe and an unpolished, untravelled
American. [Exit.
Enter MARIA.
MARIA
Is he indeed gone?--
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