| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey: lives?"
"I never thought--till now."
"Well, what's your choice--to go--or to stay here--alone with
me?"
"Stay!" New-born thought of self, ringing vibrantly in her voice,
gave her answer singular power.
Venters trembled, and then swiftly turned his gaze from her
face--from her eyes. He knew what she had only half divined--that
she loved him.
CHAPTER XI. FAITH AND UNFAITH
At Jane Withersteen's home the promise made to Mrs. Larkin to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Intentions by Oscar Wilde: and tribrachic movements, a crime for which a learned critic of the
Augustan age censures with most just severity the brilliant if
somewhat paradoxical Hegesias. I grow cold when I think of it, and
wonder to myself if the admirable ethical effect of the prose of
that charming writer, who once in a spirit of reckless generosity
towards the uncultivated portion of our community proclaimed the
monstrous doctrine that conduct is three-fourths of life, will not
some day be entirely annihilated by the discovery that the paeons
have been wrongly placed.
ERNEST. Ah! now you are flippant.
GILBERT. Who would not be flippant when he is gravely told that
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from On Horsemanship by Xenophon: pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans,
and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land
and property in Scillus, where he lived for many
years before having to move once more, to settle
in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
On Horsemanship advises the reader on how to buy
a good horse, and how to raise it to be either a
war horse or show horse. Xenophon ends with some
words on military equipment for a cavalryman.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
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