| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: you carry such a sum about you, and have not so much as counted it!
If you are not a thief, you must allow you are very thief-like.'
'And yet, madam, the money is legitimately mine,' said I.
She took one of the bills and held it up. 'Is there any
probability, now, that this could be traced?' she asked.
'None, I should suppose; and if it were, it would be no matter,'
said I. 'With your usual penetration, you guessed right. An
Englishman brought it me. It reached me, through the hands of his
English solicitor, from my great-uncle, the Comte de Keroual de
Saint-Yves, I believe the richest EMIGRE in London.'
'I can do no more than take your word for it,' said she.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Chita: A Memory of Last Island by Lafcadio Hearn: her climb up,--a little ghost!" But one day naughty Chita
received a terrible lesson,--a lasting lesson,--which taught her
the value of obedience.
She had been particularly cautioned not to venture into a certain
part of the swamp in the rear of the grove, where the weeds were
very tall; for Carmen was afraid some snake might bite the child.
But Chita's bird-bright eye had discerned a gleam of white in
that direction; and she wanted to know what it was. The white
could only be seen from one point, behind the furthest house,
where the ground was high. "Never go there," said Carmen; "there
is a Dead Man there,--will bite you!" And yet, one day, while
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: There is.
And can you think of anything else which is between them other than
equality?
No, it is equality which lies between them.
Then that which has greatness and smallness also has equality, which lies
between them?
That is clear.
Then the one, which is not, partakes, as would appear, of greatness and
smallness and equality?
Clearly.
Further, it must surely in a sort partake of being?
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