| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: it had lately been. Columbine tactlessly joined them as they were
setting out, though in this respect matters were improved a little
when Harlequin came running after them, and attached himself to
Columbine.
Andre-Louis, stepping out ahead with Climene, spoke of the thing
that was uppermost in his mind at the moment.
"Your father is behaving very oddly towards me," said he. "It is
almost as if he had suddenly become hostile."
"You imagine it," said she. "My father is very grateful to you,
as we all are."
"He is anything but grateful. He is infuriated against me; and I
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: Some strong-built castle on a rising ground,
Views all th' approaches with observing eyes:
This and that other part in vain he tries,
And more on industry than force relies.
With hands on high, Entellus threats the foe;
But Dares watch'd the motion from below,
And slipp'd aside, and shunn'd the long descending blow.
Entellus wastes his forces on the wind,
And, thus deluded of the stroke design'd,
Headlong and heavy fell; his ample breast
And weighty limbs his ancient mother press'd.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: the stout barin. "And now let us be off home. Coachman, you can take
the lower road through the kitchen garden. Run, you lout of a Thoma
Bolshoy, and open the gate for him. He will guide you to the house,
and I myself shall be along presently."
Thereupon the barelegged Thoma Bolshoy, clad in nothing but a shirt,
ran ahead of the koliaska through the village, every hut of which had
hanging in front of it a variety of nets, for the reason that every
inhabitant of the place was a fisherman. Next, he opened a gate into a
large vegetable enclosure, and thence the koliaska emerged into a
square near a wooden church, with, showing beyond the latter, the
roofs of the manorial homestead.
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