| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: like an abandonment. He drew her dress in the darkness down over her
knees and stood a few moments, apparently adjusting his own clothing.
Then he quietly opened the door and went out.
She saw a very brilliant little moon shining above the afterglow over
the oaks. Quickly she got up and arranged herself she was tidy. Then
she went to the door of the hut.
All the lower wood was in shadow, almost darkness. Yet the sky overhead
was crystal. But it shed hardly any light. He came through the lower
shadow towards her, his face lifted like a pale blotch.
'Shall we go then?' he said.
'Where?'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hiero by Xenophon: others, whilst he visits foreign parts. A twofold apprehension haunts
him:[20] he will be robbed of his throne, and at the same time be
powerless to take vengeance on his wrongdoer.[21]
[13] {logizomenos}, "to apply my moral algebra."
[14] {en tois dia tes opseos theamasi}. See Hartman, "An. Xen. Nova,"
p. 246. {theamasi} = "spectacular effects," is perhaps a gloss on
"all objects apprehensible through vision." Holden (crit. app.)
would rather omit {dia tes opseos} with Schneid.
[15] The words are perhaps a gloss.
[16] e.g. the games at Olympia, or the great Dionysia at Athens, etc.
[17] Omitting {einai}, or if with Breit. {dokei einai . . .
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac: cheeks.
"Let us now return to the others, madame," said Solonet. "Listen
carefully to what I shall say; and then--you shall think me incapable
if you choose."
"My dear friend," said the young notary to Maitre Mathias, "in spite
of your great ability, you have not foreseen either the case of
Monsieur de Manerville dying without children, nor that in which he
leaves only female issue. In either of those cases the entail would
pass to the Manervilles, or, at any rate, give rise to suits on their
part. I think, therefore, it is necessary to stipulate that in the
first case the entailed property shall pass under the general deed of
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