| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: she was told to do, and that she had taken nothing more; that
Botchkova and Kartinkin, in whose presence she unlocked and
locked the portmanteau, could testify to the truth of the
statement.
She gave this further evidence--that when she came to the
lodging-house for the second time she did, at the instigation of
Simeon Kartinkin, give Smelkoff sonic kind of powder, which she
thought was a narcotic, in a glass of brandy, hoping he would
fall asleep and that she would be able to get away from him; and
that Smelkoff, having beaten her, himself gave her the ring when
she cried and threatened to go away.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: be uncharitable, victimised by the flapping sensations which Frau Fischer
was enduring until six-thirty? As a gift from heaven for my forbearance,
down the path towards us came the Herr Rat, angelically clad in a white
silk suit. He and Frau Fischer were old friends. She drew the folds of
her dressing-gown together, and made room for him on the little green
bench.
"How cool you are looking," she said; "and if I may make the remark--what a
beautiful suit!"
"Surely I wore it last summer when you were here? I brought the silk from
China--smuggled it through the Russian customs by swathing it round my
body. And such a quantity: two dress lengths for my sister-in-law, three
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: some one, himself being all that a man ought to be, should in
admiration of a boy's soul[24] endeavour to discover in him a true
friend without reproach, and to consort with him--this was a
relationship which Lycurgus commended, and indeed regarded as the
noblest type of bringing up. But if, as was evident, it was not an
attachment to the soul, but a yearning merely towards the body, he
stamped this thing as foul and horrible; and with this result, to the
credit of Lycurgus be it said, that in Lacedaemon the relationship of
lover and beloved is like that of parent and child or brother and
brother where carnal appetite is in abeyance.
[24] See Xen. "Symp." viii. 35; Plut. "Lycurg." 18.
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