| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Marie by H. Rider Haggard: my uncle that I have to congratulate you, about Marie I mean, and,
believe me, I do so with all my heart."
Now, as he spoke these words, remembering what I had just heard, my
blood boiled in me, but I thought it wise to control myself, and
therefore only answered:
"Thank you."
"Of course," he went on, "we have both striven for this prize, but as it
has pleased God that you should win it, why, I am not one to bear
malice."
"I am glad to hear it," I replied. "I thought that perhaps you might
be. Now tell me, to change the subject, how long will Dingaan keep us
Marie |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: self-aggrandisement.
[4] Or, "in the cavalry quarters," cf. {en tois ikhthusin} = in the
fish market. Or, "at the review of the horse."
[5] For the various Odeums at Athens vide Prof. Jebb, "Theophr."
xviii. 235, 236. The one here named was near the fountain
Callirhoe by the Ilissus.
But now Thrasybulus at the head of his followers, by this time about
one thousand strong, descended from Phyle and reached Piraeus in the
night. The Thirty, on their side, informed of this new move, were not
slow to rally to the rescue, with the Laconian guards, supported by
their own cavalry and hoplites. And so they advanced, marching down
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: it is difficult to regard as consonant with any knowledge of human nature
and the laws by which it is dominated.
On the other hand, if it be supposed that the possession of wealth or the
means of earning it makes the human female objectionable to the male, all
history and all daily experience negates it. The eager hunt for heiresses
in all ages and social conditions, make it obvious that the human male has
a strong tendency to value the female who can contribute to the family
expenditure; and the case is yet, we believe, unrecorded of a male who,
attracted to a female, becomes averse to her on finding she has material
good. The female doctor or lawyer earning a thousand a year will always,
and today certainly does, find more suitors than had she remained a
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