| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: ornament; for it really seemed as if all the reds of its decoration
had been made expressly to enhance her style of beauty. Silence
reigned; Pierrette was watching the game, Sylvie's attention was
distracted from her by the interest of the /grande misere/.
"Play that," said Pierrette to the colonel, pointing to a heart in his
hand.
The colonel began a sequence in hearts; the hearts all lay between
himself and Sylvie; the colonel won her ace, though it was protected
by five small hearts.
"That's not fair!" she cried. "Pierrette saw my hand, and the colonel
took her advice."
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Golden Sayings of Epictetus by Epictetus: hast Thou no further need of me? I thank Thee! Up to this hour
have I stayed for Thy sake and none other's: and now in obedience
to Thee I depart.
"How dost thou depart?"
Again I say, as Thoun wouldst have me; as one that is free,
as Thy servant, as one whose ear is open unto what Thou dost
enjoin, what Thou dost forbid.
CXXXII
Whatsoever place or post Thou assignest me, sooner will I
die a thousand deaths, as Socrates said, then depart it. And
where wilt Thou have be me? At Rome of Athens? At Thebes or on a
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: scythe. "I should crowd it."
"But they shall get out and walk; it will be good for them," said
Charley, indicating the valets and maids, and possibly the dogs, too.
Beverly Rodgers did much better than Charley. With a charming gesture and
bow, he offered his own seat in the first automobile. "I am going to walk
in any case," he assured her.
"One gentleman among them," I heard John Mayrant mutter behind me.
Miss La Heu declined, the chorus urged, but Beverly (who was indeed a
gentleman, every inch of him) shook his head imperceptibly at Charley;
and while the little exclamations--"Do come! So much more comfortable! So
nice to see more of you!"--dropped away, Miss La Heu had settled her
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