| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: volcano made, or an old one re-opened.
Now we can understand why earthquakes should be most common round
volcanos; and we can understand, too, why they would be worst
before a volcano breaks out, because then the steam is trying to
escape; and we can understand, too, why people who live near
volcanos are glad to see them blazing and spouting, because then
they have hope that the steam has found its way out, and will not
make earthquakes any more for a while. But still that is merely
foolish speculation on chance. Volcanos can never be trusted. No
one knows when one will break out, or what it will do; and those
who live close to them--as the city of Naples is close to Mount
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Hellenica by Xenophon: contrived to preserve all their cattle in Peiraeum; indeed, large
numbers derived their subsistence from the place. Agesilaus was again
in command of the expedition. In the first instance he advanced upon
the Isthmus. It was the month of the Isthmian games,[2] and here he
found the Argives engaged in conducting the sacrifice to Poseidon, as
if Corinth were Argos. So when they perceived the approach of
Agesilaus, the Argives and their friends left the offerings as they
lay, including the preparations for the breakfast, and retired with
undisguised alarm into the city by the Cenchrean road.[3] Agesilaus,
though he observed the movement, refrained from giving chase, but
taking up his quarters in the temple, there proceeded to offer victims
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: in Corvick's, and that, moreover I wasn't in ignorance of her
mother's interdict. At bottom I was troubled by the disparity of
the two accounts; but after a little I felt Corvick's to be the one
I least doubted. This simply reduced me to asking myself if the
girl had on the spot improvised an engagement - vamped up an old
one or dashed off a new - in order to arrive at the satisfaction
she desired. She must have had resources of which I was destitute,
but she made her case slightly more intelligible by returning
presently: "What the state of things has been is that we felt of
course bound to do nothing in mamma's lifetime."
"But now you think you'll just dispense with mamma's consent?"
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