| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: "Why, the "Aubyn Letters"--didn't you know about it? The girl
read them so beautifully that it was quite horrible--I should have
fainted if there'd been a man near enough to carry me out."
Hartly's glee redoubled, and Dresham said, jovially, "How like you
women to raise a shriek over the book and then do all you can to
encourage the blatant publicity of the readings!"
Mrs. Armiger met him more than half-way on a torrent of self-
accusal. "It WAS horrid; it was disgraceful. I told your wife we
ought all to be ashamed of ourselves for going, and I think Alexa
was quite right to refuse to take any tickets--even if it was for
a charity."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: who has the knowledge of good and evil generally, must not only have
courage, but also temperance, justice, and every other virtue. Thus, a
single virtue would be the same as all virtues (compare Protagoras). And
after all the two generals, and Socrates, the hero of Delium, are still in
ignorance of the nature of courage. They must go to school again, boys,
old men and all.
Some points of resemblance, and some points of difference, appear in the
Laches when compared with the Charmides and Lysis. There is less of
poetical and simple beauty, and more of dramatic interest and power. They
are richer in the externals of the scene; the Laches has more play and
development of character. In the Lysis and Charmides the youths are the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: Trina, "and I thought I'd spend just a quarter. You don't
mind, now, do you, Mrs. McTeague?"
"Why, no, of course not, Miss Baker," answered Trina,
bravely.
"They'll look very pretty on some of my chairs," went on the
little old dressmaker, innocently. "See." She spread one
of them on a chair back for inspection. Trina's chin
quivered.
"Oh, VERY pretty," she answered.
At length that dreadful day was over. The crowd dispersed.
Even the auctioneer went at last, and as he closed the door
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