| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The White Moll by Frank L. Packard: leading, mounted the dark, narrow stairway to the hall above, and
from there up the short, ladder-like steps to the garret. He
groped in the aperture under the partition for the key, opened the
door, and stepped inside. Rhoda Gray, following, removed the key,
inserted it on the inside of the door, and, as she too entered,
locked the door behind her. It was pitch-black here in the attic.
Her face was set now, her lips firm. She had been waiting for this,
hadn't she? It was near the end at last. She had Danglar - alone.
But not in the darkness! He was too tricky! She crossed the garret
to where the candle-stub, stuck in the neck of the gin bottle, stood
on the rickety washstand.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: case at issue could be formally adjudicated.
[1] See above, VII. ii. 23; iii. 3; Diod. xv. 76.
[2] See Thuc. viii. 60.
Now Lycomedes[3] had discovered that the Athenians were harbouring a
grievance against her allies, as follows:--They felt it hard that,
while Athens was put to vast trouble on their account, yet in her need
not a man among them stepped forward to render help. Accordingly he
persuaded the assembly of Ten Thousand to open negotiations with
Athens for the purpose of forming an alliance.[4] At first some of the
Athenians were vexed that they, being friends of Lacedaemon, should
become allied to her opponents; but on further reflection they
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Works of Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson: knowledge with just reasoning.
But, surely, these are subjects on which any man
may without reproach employ his meditations: the
innumerable occupations, among which the thousands
that swarm in the streets of London, are distributed,
may furnish employment to minds of every
cast, and capacities of every degree. He that
contemplates the extent of this wonderful city, finds it
difficult to conceive, by what method plenty is
maintained in our markets, and how the inhabitants are
regularly supplied with the necessaries of life; but
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