| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf: disturbed them. It disturbed William excessively. He started back,
walked rapidly into the hall, and said in a loud and ostentatiously
ordinary tone:
"Good night, Katharine. Go to bed now. I shall see you soon. I hope I
shall be able to come to-morrow."
Next moment he was gone. She went upstairs and found Cassandra on the
landing. She held two or three books in her hand, and she was stooping
to look at others in a little bookcase. She said that she could never
tell which book she wanted to read in bed, poetry, biography, or
metaphysics.
"What do you read in bed, Katharine?" she asked, as they walked
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: thief with his pockets crammed even now with the money that had
lured him almost to his death; but, too, she was not altogether sure
that she distrusted him. But all that was secondary. She must, as
soon as she could, get back to Gypsy Nan's garret. Like that other
night, she dared not take the risk that Danglar, by any chance, might
return there - and find her gone after what had just happened. The
man would be beside himself with fury, suspicious of everything
-and suspicion would be fatal in its consequences for her. And so
she must go. And she could not become Gypsy Nan again with the
Adventurer looking on!
"We part here," she said a little unsteadily. "Good-night!"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: [10] Al. "flank," "flanks themselves."
[11] Or, as we should say, "stern." See Pollux, v. 59; Arrian, v. 9.
[12] See Stonehenge, p. 24 foll.
Hounds possessed of these points will be strong in build, and at the
same time light and active; they will have symmetry at once and pace;
a bright, beaming expression; and good mouths.
In following up scent,[13] see how they show their mettle by rapidly
quitting beaten paths, keeping their heads sloping to the ground,
smiling, as it were to greet the trail; see how they let their ears
drop, how they keep moving their eyes to and fro quickly, flourishing
their sterns.[14] Forwards they should go with many a circle towards
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