| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: in the chapel."
"The earl is a worthy peer," said brother Michael; "he is worth
any fourteen earls on this side Trent, and any seven on the other."
(The reader will please to remember that Rubygill Abbey was
north of Trent.)
"His mettle will be tried," said Sir Ralph. "There is many a courtier
will swear to King Henry to bring him in dead or alive."
"They must look to the brambles then," said brother Michael.
"The bramble, the bramble, the bonny forest bramble,
Doth make a jest
Of silken vest,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: pleasant, having no mind to use those arts and graces which you recommend,
I shall have nothing to say in the justice court. And you might argue with
me, as I was arguing with Polus:--I shall be tried just as a physician
would be tried in a court of little boys at the indictment of the cook.
What would he reply under such circumstances, if some one were to accuse
him, saying, 'O my boys, many evil things has this man done to you: he is
the death of you, especially of the younger ones among you, cutting and
burning and starving and suffocating you, until you know not what to do; he
gives you the bitterest potions, and compels you to hunger and thirst. How
unlike the variety of meats and sweets on which I feasted you!' What do
you suppose that the physician would be able to reply when he found himself
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herland by Charlotte Gilman: had made no impression whatever.
I am thus explicit about it because it shows how unexpectedly
strong was the impression made upon Ellador when she at last
entered our civilization.
She urged me to be patient, and I was patient. You see, I loved
her so much that even the restrictions she so firmly established
left me much happiness. We were lovers, and there is surely delight
enough in that.
Do not imagine that these young women utterly refused "the
Great New Hope," as they called it, that of dual parentage. For
that they had agreed to marry us, though the marrying part of
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