| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tattine by Ruth Ogden [Mrs. Charles W. Ide]: Tattine added, "and perhaps some day I'll forgive you about that rabbit, since
Mamma says it's natural for you to hunt them." But Betsy, indifferent
creature, did not care a fig about all that; her only care was to watch her
little puppies stowed away one by one on fresh sweet-smelling straw, in the
same kennel where Doctor and his brothers and sisters had enjoyed their
puppy-hood, and then to snuggle up in a round ball close beside them. They
were Betsy's puppies for a certainty. There had been no doubt of that from the
first glimpse Rudolph gained of them in their dark little hole under the
porch. But the next morning came and then what do you suppose happened? A very
weak little puppy cry came from under the porch. Another puppy, that was what
it meant, and Joseph was very much out of patience, for the trench had been
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: meditativeness, it reminds one more of Mr. Paine's favourite
master, Bach. The choral, like the one in the first part and the
one which follows the scene of Pentecost, is taken from the
Lutheran Choral Book, and arranged with original harmony and
instrumentation, in accordance with the custom of Bach,
Mendelssohn, and other composers, "of introducing into their
sacred compositions the old popular choral melodies which are the
peculiar offspring of a religious age." Thus the noblest choral
ever written, the "Sleepers, wake," in "St. Paul," was composed
in 1604 by Praetorius, the harmonization and accompaniment only
being the work of Mendelssohn.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Middlemarch by George Eliot: et cetera! But what keeps me up best is the pink mixture,
not the brown. I wonder, Mr. Mawmsey, with your experience,
you could have patience to listen. I should have told him at once
that I knew a little better than that."
"No, no, no," said Mr. Mawmsey; "I was not going to tell him
my opinion. Hear everything and judge for yourself is my motto.
But he didn't know who he was talking to. I was not to be turned
on HIS finger. People often pretend to tell me things, when they
might as well say, `Mawmsey, you're a fool.' But I smile at it:
I humor everybody's weak place. If physic had done harm to self
and family, I should have found it out by this time."
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