| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: end--"and high time too"--a vision of those Sabbath streets
alternately vacant and filled with silent people; of the babel of
the bells, the long-drawn psalmody, the shrewd sting of the
east wind, the hollow, echoing, dreary house to which "Ecky"
had returned with the hand of death already on his shoulder; a
vision, too, of the long, rough country lad, perhaps a serious
courtier of the lasses in the hawthorn den, perhaps a rustic
dancer on the green, who had first earned and answered to that
harsh diminutive. And I asked myself if, on the whole, poor
Ecky had succeeded in life; if the last state of that man were not
on the whole worse than the first; and the house in Randolph
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: acquainted with the life of the place. Monrovia, like most towns of
its sort and size, consisted of an upper stratum of mill owners and
lumber operators, possessed of considerable wealth, some
cultivation, and definite social ideas; a gawky, countrified, middle
estate of storekeepers, catering both to the farm and local trade
and the lumber mill operatives, generally of Holland extraction, who
dwelt in simple unpainted board shanties. The class first mentioned
comprised a small coterie, among whom Carroll soon found two or
three congenials--Edith Fuller, wife of the young cashier in the
bank; Valerie Cathcart, whose husband had been killed in the Civil
War; Clara Taylor, wife of the leading young lawyer of the village;
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: these exiles coalesced, and, marching upon each separate state in
turn, for they were pretty numerous, speedily won their restoration
and dominated the states. As the party thus reinstated no longer
steered a middle course, but went heart and soul into an alliance with
Lacedaemon, the Arcadians found themselves between the upper and the
nether millstone--that is to say, the Lacedaemonians and the Achaeans.
[45] Lit. "harmosts."
At Sicyon, hitherto,[46] the constitution was based on the ancient
laws; but at this date Euphron (who during the Lacedaemonian days had
been the greatest man in Sicyon, and whose ambition it was to hold a
like pre-eminence under their opponents) addressed himself to the
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