| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne: give me a clew to the recovery of the remainder."
"Clifford!--Clifford know of any hidden wealth? Clifford have it
in his power to make you rich?" cried the old gentlewoman, affected
with a sense of something like ridicule at the idea. "Impossible!
You deceive yourself! It is really a thing to laugh at!"
"It is as certain as that I stand here!" said Judge Pyncheon,
striking his gold-headed cane on the floor, and at the same time
stamping his foot, as if to express his conviction the more forcibly
by the whole emphasis of his substantial person. "Clifford told
me so himself!"
"No, no!" exclaimed Hepzibah incredulously. "You are dreaming,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: whose active feet in the 'College Anthem' have beguiled so
many weary hours and added a pleasant variety to the strain
of close attention. But even these are too evidently
professional in their antics. They go about cogitating puns
and inventing tricks. It is their vocation, Hal. They are
the gratuitous jesters of the class-room; and, like the clown
when he leaves the stage, their merriment too often sinks as
the bell rings the hour of liberty, and they pass forth by
the Post-Office, grave and sedate, and meditating fresh
gambols for the morrow.
This is the impression left on the mind of any observing
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Apology by Xenophon: a confluent stream of evil things most alien to joyousness
converges."[18]
[16] {te tou logou episkepsei}. Cf. Plat. "Rep." 456 C.
[17] Or, if {emin}, transl. "we all were for thinking that the main
thing was."
[18] Or, "that sink into which a confluent stream of evil humours
discharge most incompatible with gaiety of mind." Schneid. conj.
{eremon} sc. {geras}.
"No," he added, "God knows I shall display no ardent zeal to bring
that about.[19] On the contrary, if by proclaiming all the blessings
which I owe to god and men; if, by blazoning forth the opinion which I
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