| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: little talk between them on that day, why it was pure accident and
had nothing to do with the mistress' excitement."
"Then there was a quarrel between them?"
"Are people talking about it?"
"I've heard some things said. They even say that this quarrel
was the reason for - her death."
"It's stupid nonsense!" exclaimed the servant. The old peddler
seemed to like the young man's honest indignation.
While they were talking, they had passed through a long corridor
and the young man laid his hand on one of the doors as the peddler
asked, "Can I see Miss Nanette alone?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
The Hellenica 7
Anabasis |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "I have," he said with a smile, "and the print of a foot in a
tulip bed, and a number of other things. The oddest part is,
Miss Innes, that the thumb-mark is probably yours and the
footprint certainly."
His audacity was the only thing that saved me: his amused smile
put me on my mettle, and I ripped out a perfectly good scallop
before I answered.
"Why did I step into the tulip bed?" I asked with interest.
"You picked up something," he said good-humoredly, "which you are
going to tell me about later."
"Am I, indeed?" I was politely curious. "With this remarkable
The Circular Staircase |
