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therefore, when all the contingents were collected, was over one
hundred and fifty vessels.
[9] I.e. from eighteen to sixty years.
[10] See Boeckh. "P. E. A." Bk. II. chap. xxi. p. 263 (Eng. trans.)
Callicratidas, hearing that the relief squadron had already reached
Samos, left fifty ships, under command of Eteonicus, in the harbour of
Mitylene, and setting sail with the other one hundred and twenty, hove
to for the evening meal off Cape Malea in Lesbos, opposite Mitylene.
It so happened that the Athenians on this day were supping on the
islands of Arginusae, which lie opposite Lesbos. In the night the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from McTeague by Frank Norris: blood.
But McTeague, in the centre of the group that struggled
to hold him, was nigh to madness. The side of his face, his
neck, and all the shoulder and breast of his shirt were
covered with blood. He had ceased to cry out, but kept
muttering between his gripped jaws, as he labored to tear
himself free of the retaining hands:
"Ah, I'll kill him! Ah, I'll kill him! I'll kill him!
Damn you, Heise," he exclaimed suddenly, trying to strike
the harness-maker, "let go of me, will you!"
Little by little they pacified him, or rather (for he paid
McTeague |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde: reason of her being there, and the real meaning of that - fatal fan
of mine. Oh, if he knows - how can I look him in the face again?
He would never forgive me. [Touches bell.] How securely one
thinks one lives - out of reach of temptation, sin, folly. And
then suddenly - Oh! Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule
it.
[Enter ROSALIE R.]
ROSALIE. Did your ladyship ring for me?
LADY WINDERMERE. Yes. Have you found out at what time Lord
Windermere came in last night?
ROSALIE. His lordship did not come in till five o'clock.
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