| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: He had an office on the main street, just under the
principal photograph gallery. Doubtless he was sometimes
in this office; but his fellow-townsmen saw him more often
in the street doorway, with the stairs behind him, and the
flaring show-cases of the photographer on either side,
standing with his hands in his pockets and an unlighted
cigar in his mouth, looking at nothing in particular.
About every other day he went off after breakfast
into the country roundabout, sometimes with a rod,
sometimes with a gun, but always alone. He was a bachelor,
and slept in a room at the back of his office, cooking some
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Sportsman by Xenophon: sportsman from the hunting field.[32]
[32] Or, "Naturally, dogs like these damp the sportsman's ardour, and
indeed are enough to sicken him altogether with the chase."
The characters, bodily and other, exhibited by the finer specimens of
the same breed,[33] I will now set forth.
[33] Or, "The features, points, qualities, whether physical or other,
which characterise the better indidivuals." But what does Xenophon
mean by {tou autou genous}?
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In the first place, this true type of hound should be of large build;
and, in the next place, furnished with a light small head, broad and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: courtesy, and that of his companion, which hath
brought them hither to behold the widow of Adeling,
the mother of Athelstane, in her deep hour
of sorrow and lamentation. To your care, kind
kinsman, I intrust them, satisfied that they will
want no hospitality which these sad walls can yet
afford.''
The guests bowed deeply to the mourning parent,
and withdrew from their hospitable guide.
Another winding stair conducted them to an
apartment of the same size with that which they
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