| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: for Walker that he was either a just witness or an indulgent
judge. At least, in a merely human character, Haddo comes
off not wholly amiss in the matter of these Traquairs: not
that he showed any graces of the Christian, but had a sort of
Pagan decency, which might almost tempt one to be concerned
about his sudden, violent, and unprepared fate.
HEATHERCAT
CHAPTER II - FRANCIE
FRANCIE was eleven years old, shy, secret, and rather
childish of his age, though not backward in schooling, which
had been pushed on far by a private governor, one M'Brair, a
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: her pale a little, saw the quick, apprehensive glance which she
threw at her traveling companion, the small woman I had noticed
before. There was an exchange - almost a clash - of glances. The
small woman frowned. That was all. I turned my attention again
to my patient.
She had revived somewhat, and now she asked to have the window
opened. The train had stopped again and the car was oppressively
hot. People around were looking at their watches and grumbling over
the delay. The doctor bustled in with a remark about its being his
busy day. The amateur detective and the porter together mounted
guard over lower ten. Outside the heat rose in shimmering waves
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Eryxias by Platonic Imitator: which we suppose to be modern rather than ancient, and which therefore have
a peculiar interest for us. The Second Alcibiades shows that the
difficulties about prayer which have perplexed Christian theologians were
not unknown among the followers of Plato. The Eryxias was doubted by the
ancients themselves: yet it may claim the distinction of being, among all
Greek or Roman writings, the one which anticipates in the most striking
manner the modern science of political economy and gives an abstract form
to some of its principal doctrines.
For the translation of these two dialogues I am indebted to my friend and
secretary, Mr. Knight.
That the Dialogue which goes by the name of the Second Alcibiades is a
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