| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: 'Cheer up, old boy,' said Michael. 'I assure you we should count
this little contretemps a trifle at the office; it's the sort of
thing that may occur to any one; and if you're perfectly sure you
had no hand in it--'
'What language am I to find--' began Pitman.
'O, I'll do that part of it,' interrupted Michael, 'you have no
experience.' But the point is this: If--or rather since--you know
nothing of the crime, since the--the party in the closet--is
neither your father, nor your brother, nor your creditor, nor
your mother-in-law, nor what they call an injured husband--'
'O, my dear sir!' interjected Pitman, horrified.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from On Revenues by Xenophon: Ephor. ap. Diog. Laert. ii. 54; Diod. Sic. xv. 84; Boeckh, ap. L.
Dindorf. Xenophon's son Gryllus served under him and was slain.
[13] Reading {kai tauta toutout men adelou ontos}, after Zurborg.
[14] Reading {[uper] on an eisenegkosi} with Zurborg. See his note,
"Comm." p. 25.
But for a sound investment[15] I know of nothing comparable with the
initial outlay to form this fund.[16] Any one whose contribution
amounts to ten minae[17] may look forward to a return as high as he
would get on bottomry, of nearly one-fifth,[18] as the recipient of
three obols a day. The contributor of five minae[19] will on the same
principle get more than a third,[20] while the majority of Athenians
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Master of the World by Jules Verne: followed, revolver shots were fired; and the intruder disappeared.
That same night he had by force abducted the president and the
secretary of the club, and had taken them, much against their will
upon a voyage in the wonderful air-ship, the "Albatross," which he
had constructed. He meant thus to prove to them beyond argument the
correctness of his assertions. This ship, a hundred feet long, was
upheld in the air by a large number of horizontal screws and was
driven forward by vertical screws at its bow and stern. It was
managed by a crew of at least half a dozen men, who seemed absolutely
devoted to their leader, Robur.
After a voyage almost completely around the world, Mr. Prudent and
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