| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: place where you could find me?'
"She told me that she had long known M. G---- M----; that he had
sent for her that evening about five o'clock; and that, having
followed the servant who had been dispatched to her, she was
shown into a large house, where she found him playing at picquet
with a beautiful young woman; and that they both charged her to
deliver the letter into my hands, after telling her that she
would find me in a hackney-coach at the bottom of the street of
St. Andre. I asked if they had said nothing more. She blushed
while she replied, that they had certainly made her believe that
I should be glad of her society. `They have deceived you too,'
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: 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
The Cyropaedia 8
The Memorabilia 4
The Symposium 1
The Economist 1
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: back at his employer. There was reluctance in his eye. I wondered
if his employer could be going to make him tell his own exploits
in the presence of us outsiders; and there came into my memory
the Bengal tiger at a trained-animal show I had once seen.
"You had some trouble," repeated the Judge.
"Well, there was a time when they maybe wanted to have notions.
They're good boys." And he smiled a very little.
Contentment increased in the Judge's face. "Trampas a good boy
too?"
But this time the Bengal tiger did not smile. He sat with his eye
fastened on his employer.
The Virginian |
