| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: right? Stop grunting like a pig, and think, man!"
Pierre would give a final rumble and begin to think deeply.
"I cannot think. I - in my left hand, monsieur le capitaine?"
"In your left hand."
The little crowd in the dressing room would draw in close about the table
to listen.
"I do not know, monsieur."
"Idiot!" Henri would say. "Your right elbow, man!"
And the dressing was done.
He had an inexhaustible stock of such riddles, almost never guessed. He
would tell the answer and then laugh delightedly. And pain seemed to
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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: daresay, I was going to end my sentence different, and say that a host
of people have given me the enviable title "beautiful and good."
I was indeed myself about to ask, Ischomachus (I answered), whether
you take pains also to acquire skill in argumentative debate, the cut
and thrust and parry of discussion,[19] should occasion call?
[19] Lit. "to give a reason and to get a reason from others." Cf.
"Cyrop." I. iv. 3.
Isch. Does it not strike you rather, Socrates, that I am engaged in
one long practice of this very skill,[20] now pleading as defendant
that, as far as I am able, I do good to many and hurt nobody? And
then, again, you must admit, I play the part of prosecutor when
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: use his hoofs just as much as if he were walking. Nor is it the hoofs
merely, but a surface so strewn with stones will tend to harden the
frog of the foot also.
[7] Lit. "A damp and smooth floor may be the ruin of a naturally good
hoof." It will be understood that the Greeks did not shoe their
horses.
[8] See Courier, p. 54, for an interesting experiment tried by himself
at Bari.
[9] Cf. "Hipparch," i. 16.
[10] Or, "spread so as to form a surface."
But if care is needed to make the hoofs hard, similar pains should be
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