| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: from the shrubbery - Overt could scarcely have said how he appeared
- and Mrs. St. George had protested that she wanted to be left
alone and not to break up the party. A moment later she was
walking off with Lord Masham. Our friend fell back and joined Lady
Watermouth, to whom he presently mentioned that Mrs. St. George had
been obliged to renounce the attempt to go further.
"She oughtn't to have come out at all," her ladyship rather
grumpily remarked.
"Is she so very much of an invalid?"
"Very bad indeed." And his hostess added with still greater
austerity: "She oughtn't really to come to one!" He wondered what
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell: The man who had brought me for sale now put in his word.
"The young gentleman's a real knowing one, sir. Now the fact is,
this 'ere hoss is just pulled down with overwork in the cabs;
he's not an old one, and I heerd as how the vetenary should say,
that a six months' run off would set him right up, being as how
his wind was not broken. I've had the tending of him these ten days past,
and a gratefuller, pleasanter animal I never met with, and 'twould be worth
a gentleman's while to give a five-pound note for him, and let him have
a chance. I'll be bound he'd be worth twenty pounds next spring."
The old gentleman laughed, and the little boy looked up eagerly.
"Oh, grandpapa, did you not say the colt sold for five pounds more
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Laches by Plato: LACHES: Certainly.
SOCRATES: I would not have us begin, my friend, with enquiring about the
whole of virtue; for that may be more than we can accomplish; let us first
consider whether we have a sufficient knowledge of a part; the enquiry will
thus probably be made easier to us.
LACHES: Let us do as you say, Socrates.
SOCRATES: Then which of the parts of virtue shall we select? Must we not
select that to which the art of fighting in armour is supposed to conduce?
And is not that generally thought to be courage?
LACHES: Yes, certainly.
SOCRATES: Then, Laches, suppose that we first set about determining the
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