| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: "Take your horrid old key," said the mother, and she threw it on
the floor. "If you ever try to get my baby again, I'll lock your
husband in JAIL," and murmuring excited maledictions in her
native tongue, she took her welcome departure.
Zoie stooped for the key, one hand to her giddy head, but Aggie,
who had just returned to the room, reached the key first and
volunteered to go to the aid of the captive Alfred, who was
pounding desperately on the bathroom door and demanding his
instant release.
"I'll let him out," said Aggie. "You get into bed," and she
slipped quickly from the room.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: to make good horsemen of them without loss of time; and while pleading
in this strain, you must endeavour to make your practice correspond
with what you preach.
[14] Lit. "by bringing them into court, or by persuasion," i.e. by
legal if not by moral pressure. See Martin, op. cit. pp. 316, 321
foll.
[15] i.e. "would cause you to be suspected of acting from motives of
gain."
[16] Reading {esti de kai ous}, or if as vulg. {eti de kai}, "More
than that, it strikes me one may work on the feelings of young
fellows in such a way as to disarm." See Hartmann, "An. Xen. N."
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: their children, whom they may none the less treat very badly. And
there is an extremely dangerous craze for children which leads certain
people to establish orphanages and baby farms and schools, seizing any
pretext for filling their houses with children exactly as some
eccentric old ladies and gentlemen fill theirs with cats. In such
places the children are the victims of all the caprices of doting
affection and all the excesses of lascivious cruelty. Yet the people
who have this morbid craze seldom have any difficulty in finding
victims. Parents and guardians are so worried by children and so
anxious to get rid of them that anyone who is willing to take them off
their hands is welcomed and whitewashed. The very people who read
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