| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: Don't you feel it?"
Alexander went over and opened the
window for her. "Aren't you afraid to let the
wind low like that on your neck? Can't I get
a scarf or something?"
"Ask a theatre lady if she's afraid of drafts!"
Hilda laughed. "But perhaps, as I'm so warm--
give me your handkerchief. There, just in front."
He slipped the corners carefully under her shoulder-straps.
"There, that will do. It looks like a bib."
She pushed his hand away quickly and stood
Alexander's Bridge |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: more inscribed than an Egyptian obelisk.
Once when he sat down to chat, he told us that in the immigrant
car ahead there was a family from `across the water'
whose destination was the same as ours.
`They can't any of them speak English, except one little girl, and all she
can say is "We go Black Hawk, Nebraska." She's not much older than you,
twelve or thirteen, maybe, and she's as bright as a new dollar.
Don't you want to go ahead and see her, Jimmy? She's got the pretty
brown eyes, too!'
This last remark made me bashful, and I shook my head and settled
down to `Jesse James.' Jake nodded at me approvingly and said you
My Antonia |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: sum subscribed nor have any further share in the object for which he
gave his contribution.[14]
[10] "A starting-point."
[11] B.C. 366; cf. "Hell." VII. iv. 3.
[12] B.C. 362; cf. "Hell." VII. v. 15. See Grote, "H. G." x. 459;
Ephor. ap. Diog. Laert. ii. 54; Diod. Sic. xv. 84; Boeckh, ap. L.
Dindorf. Xenophon's son Gryllus served under him and was slain.
[13] Reading {kai tauta toutout men adelou ontos}, after Zurborg.
[14] Reading {[uper] on an eisenegkosi} with Zurborg. See his note,
"Comm." p. 25.
But for a sound investment[15] I know of nothing comparable with the
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