| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: the fever was so high that if father had been a drinking man it would have
burned him up like a piece of paper; but I believe he thinks
he will get over it; don't you think he will, Mr. Grant?"
The governor looked puzzled.
"If there's any rule that good men should get over these things,
I'm sure he will, my boy; he's the best man I know.
I'll look in early to-morrow."
Early next morning he was there.
"Well?" said he.
"Father is better," said Harry. "Mother hopes he will get over it."
"Thank God!" said the governor, "and now you must keep him warm,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rescue by Joseph Conrad: other thoroughly? Yes? It surprises you! Well, I assure you that
seven thousand miles from here nobody would wonder."
"I think I understand," said Lingard, "but don't you know the man
is light-headed? A man like that is as good as mad."
"Yes, he had been slightly delirious since seven o'clock," said
d'Alcacer. "But believe me, Captain Lingard," he continued,
earnestly, and obeying a perfectly disinterested impulse, "that
even in his delirium he is far more understandable to her and
better able to understand her than . . . anybody within a hundred
miles from here."
"Ah!" said Lingard without any emotion, "so you don't wonder. You
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: temples and palaces and harbours and docks. And they arranged the whole
country in the following manner:--
First of all they bridged over the zones of sea which surrounded the
ancient metropolis, making a road to and from the royal palace. And at the
very beginning they built the palace in the habitation of the god and of
their ancestors, which they continued to ornament in successive
generations, every king surpassing the one who went before him to the
utmost of his power, until they made the building a marvel to behold for
size and for beauty. And beginning from the sea they bored a canal of
three hundred feet in width and one hundred feet in depth and fifty stadia
in length, which they carried through to the outermost zone, making a
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