| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: shamefaced ones," "you draw in your head like a tern," "you make
your voice small like a whistle-pipe," "you beg like one
delirious"; and the verb PONGITAI, "to look cross," is equipped
with the pregnant rider, "as at the sight of beggars."
This insolence of beggars and the weakness of proprietors can only
be illustrated by examples. We have a girl in our service to whom
we had given some finery, that she might wait at table, and (at her
own request) some warm clothing against the cold mornings of the
bush. She went on a visit to her family, and returned in an old
tablecloth, her whole wardrobe having been divided out among
relatives in the course of twenty-four hours. A pastor in the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: would have you to know, and surrounded by my own lawful
servants.'
'Are the officers gone?' I asked; and oh! how my hopes hung
upon the answer!
'They are,' said he, looking somewhat disconcerted. 'Why do
you ask?'
'I wish you had kept them,' I answered, solemnly enough,
although my heart at that same moment leaped with exultation.
'Master, I must not conceal from you the truth. The servants
on this estate are in a dangerous condition, and mutiny has
long been brewing.'
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Critias by Plato: We can only infer that in this, and perhaps in some other cases, Plato's
characters have no reference to the actual facts. The desire to do honour
to his own family, and the connection with Solon, may have suggested the
introduction of his name. Why the Critias was never completed, whether
from accident, or from advancing age, or from a sense of the artistic
difficulty of the design, cannot be determined.
CRITIAS.
PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Critias, Hermocrates, Timaeus, Socrates.
TIMAEUS: How thankful I am, Socrates, that I have arrived at last, and,
like a weary traveller after a long journey, may be at rest! And I pray
the being who always was of old, and has now been by me revealed, to grant
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