| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: feeling already existing against Jack.
"Not a voice was raised in his defense. He was advised to leave
the army; he was requested to withdraw from some of his clubs,
turned out of others, avoided by his fast acquaintances, cut by his
respectable ones. It was enough to kill a weaker man.
"He showed no resentment at the measure thus dealt out to him.
Indeed, at the first, except for Sylvia's desertion of him, he
seemed dully indifferent to it all. It was as if his soul had been
stunned, from the moment that that wretched woman's blood had
splashed upon his fingers, and her dead eyes had looked up into his
own.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: this woman so strong she could barely conceal it, how could Melly
love her so? How could Melly be so stupid as not to guess the
secret of her love of Ashley? She had given herself away a hundred
times during these months of torment, waiting for news of him. But
Melanie saw nothing, Melanie who could see nothing but good in
anyone she loved. . . . Yes, she had promised Ashley she would
look out for Melanie. Oh, Ashley! Ashley! you must be dead, dead
these many months! And now your promise reaches out and clutches
me!
"Well," she said shortly, "I did promise him that and I don't go
back on my promises. But I won't go to Macon and stay with that
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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: prow forwards,[22] to meet the enemy, and thus the rear company again
finds itself on the right. If, however, the enemy should attack on the
left, either they will not allow of that and push him aside,[23] or
else they wheel their companies to the left to face the antagonist,
and thus the rear company once more falls into position on the left.
[13] Or, "alongside of any comrade who may have fallen in their way."
See Plut. "Pelop." 23 (Clough, ii. 222); Thuc. v. 72.
[14] Or, "drill sergeant."
[15] See Jebb, note to "Theophr." viii. 3.
[16] Or, "marching in rear of another."
[17] See Rustow and Kochly, p. 127.
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