| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: swimming head. When she looked up she found Coroner Penfield by
her side.
"That is all," he said kindly. "Please remain in the witness room,
I may call you again," and he helped her down the step with careful
attention.
Back in his corner Kent watched her departure. He was white to the
lips.
"Heat too much for you?" asked a kindly-faced stranger, and Kent
gave a mumbled "No," as he strove to pull himself together.
What deviltry was afoot? How dared the twins take such risks - to
bear false witness was a grave criminal offense. He, alone, among
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: to place sentences side by side, leaving their relation to one another to
be gathered from their position or from the context. The difficulty of
preserving the effect of the Greek is increased by the want of adversative
and inferential particles in English, and by the nice sense of tautology
which characterizes all modern languages. We cannot have two 'buts' or two
'fors' in the same sentence where the Greek repeats (Greek). There is a
similar want of particles expressing the various gradations of objective
and subjective thought--(Greek) and the like, which are so thickly
scattered over the Greek page. Further, we can only realize to a very
imperfect degree the common distinction between (Greek), and the
combination of the two suggests a subtle shade of negation which cannot be
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: parted the spoil among them, and went down the mountains, and
away.
And he went down the glens of Parnes, through mist, and
cloud, and rain, down the slopes of oak, and lentisk, and
arbutus, and fragrant bay, till he came to the Vale of
Cephisus, and the pleasant town of Aphidnai, and the home of
the Phytalid heroes, where they dwelt beneath a mighty elm.
And there they built an altar, and bade him bathe in
Cephisus, and offer a yearling ram, and purified him from the
blood of Sinis, and sent him away in peace.
And he went down the valley by Acharnai, and by the silver-
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