| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adam Bede by George Eliot: I never get hold of you now."
"Eh! It's a pity but you'd sit it out," said Martin Poyser.
"They'll all go soon, for th' missis niver lets 'em stay past
ten."
But Adam was resolute, so the good-nights were said, and the two
friends turned out on their starlight walk together.
"There's that poor fool, Vixen, whimpering for me at home," said
Bartle. "I can never bring her here with me for fear she should
be struck with Mrs. Poyser's eye, and the poor bitch might go
limping for ever after."
"I've never any need to drive Gyp back," said Adam, laughing. "He
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: adorable little drawings and plans. You should see his diagrams!"
CHAPTER VIII
The girl had in course of time every opportunity to inspect these
documents, and they a little disappointed her; but in the mean
while there had been more talk, and it had led to her saying, as if
her friend's guarantee of a life of elegance were not quite
definite: "Well, I see every one at MY place."
"Every one?"
"Lots of swells. They flock. They live, you know, all round, and
the place is filled with all the smart people, all the fast people,
those whose names are in the papers--mamma has still The Morning
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: thence on the following day they sailed to attack Cyzicus. The men of
that place, seeing that the Peloponnesians and Pharnabazus had
evacuated the town, admitted the Athenians. Here Alcibiades remained
twenty days, obtaining large sums of money from the Cyzicenes, but
otherwise inflicting no sort of mischief on the community. He then
sailed back to Proconnesus, and from there to Perinthus and Selybria.
The inhabitants of the former place welcomed his troops into their
city, but the Selybrians preferred to give money, and so escape the
admission of the troops. Continuing the voyage the squadron reached
Chrysopolis in Chalcedonia,[5] where they built a fort, and
established a custom-house to collect the tithe dues which they levied
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