| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: first presented to him.
[6] Reading with L. Dind. {khre de ton ippokomon kai ta oiade . . .
paroxunthai, ei ti dei ponein}, or if as Schneid., Sauppe, etc.,
{khre de ton ippon me kata toiade, k.t.l.}, transl. "the horse
must not be irritated in such operations as these," etc.; but
{toiade} = "as follows," if correct, suggests a lacuna in either
case at this point.
It would be good for the groom to know how to give a leg up in the
Persian fashion,[7] so that in case of illness or infirmity of age the
master himself may have a man to help him on to horseback without
trouble, or, if he so wish, be able to oblige a friend with a man to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: recognition.
"Do you mean I told you--?" But he faltered, lest what came to him
shouldn't be right, lest he should only give himself away.
"It was something about yourself that it was natural one shouldn't
forget--that is if one remembered you at all. That's why I ask
you," she smiled, "if the thing you then spoke of has ever come to
pass?"
Oh then he saw, but he was lost in wonder and found himself
embarrassed. This, he also saw, made her sorry for him, as if her
allusion had been a mistake. It took him but a moment, however, to
feel it hadn't been, much as it had been a surprise. After the
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: love.
CHAPTER XII
She was occasionally worried, however this might be, by the
impression that these sacrifices, great as they were, were nothing
to those that his own passion had imposed; if indeed it was not
rather the passion of his confederate, which had caught him up and
was whirling him round like a great steam-wheel. He was at any
rate in the strong grip of a dizzy splendid fate; the wild wind of
his life blew him straight before it. Didn't she catch in his face
at times, even through his smile and his happy habit, the gleam of
that pale glare with which a bewildered victim appeals, as he
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