| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: apart. There will be no need, I hope, for us to meet again.'
'Are you going?' said Mr Chester, rising with a graceful indolence.
'Let me light you down the stairs.'
'Pray keep your seat,' returned the other drily, 'I know the way.
So, waving his hand slightly, and putting on his hat as he turned
upon his heel, he went clanking out as he had come, shut the door
behind him, and tramped down the echoing stairs.
'Pah! A very coarse animal, indeed!' said Mr Chester, composing
himself in the easy-chair again. 'A rough brute. Quite a human
badger!'
John Willet and his friends, who had been listening intently for
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Agesilaus by Xenophon: the uttermost parts of earth the separate ingredients for his
pleasure. It was another source of joy that to himself it was given to
confront the appointed order of the universe[7] without pain; while
through weakness of soul his rival, it was plain to see, was driven to
flee away from heat and cold, and to shape his life, not by the
pattern of brave men, but of some mean and defenceless animal.[8]
[5] See Herod. i. 135, for the luxury of the Persians and for the
refinements of civilisation. See "Mem." II. i. 10; "Cyrop." VIII.
i. 40.
[6] Or, "in a round of festivity."
[7] See Plut. "Ages." xiv. (Clough, iv. p. 17); "Apophth. Lac." p.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: was, shining with silver and gold and glistening with
jewels--such a sight as man's eyes never saw before.
"Take her," said the king, "she is yours." And the soldier looked
so handsome in his fine clothes that the princess was as glad to
hear those words as any she had ever listened to in all of her
life.
"You shall," said the king, "be married to-morrow."
"Very well," said the soldier. "Only give me a plot of ground to
build a palace upon that shall be fit for the wife of the King of
the Wind to live in."
"You shall have it," said the king," and it shall be the great
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