| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Secrets of the Princesse de Cadignan by Honore de Balzac: A few moments later the marquise departed; as she watched her go the
princess said to herself:--
"How she will pluck me! But to save her the trouble of trying to get
Daniel away from here I'll send him to her."
At three o'clock, or a few moments after, d'Arthez arrived. In the
midst of some interesting topic on which he was discoursing
eloquently, the princess suddenly cut him short by laying her hand on
his arm.
"Pardon me, my dear friend," she said, interrupting him, "but I fear I
may forget a thing which seems a mere trifle but may be of great
importance. You have not set foot in Madame d'Espard's salon since the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: The Cavalry General 1
The Apology 1
On Revenues 1
The Hiero 1
The Agesilaus 1
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians 2
Text in brackets "{}" is my transliteration of Greek text into
English using an Oxford English Dictionary alphabet table. The
diacritical marks have been lost.
The Cavalry General
By Xenophon
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: numerous as time went on. Only three times a year did he go out
to church, and when necessary he went out to fetch water and
wood.
The episode with Makovkina had occurred after five years of his
hermit life. That occurrence soon became generally known--her
nocturnal visit, the change she underwent, and her entry into a
convent. From that time Father Sergius's fame increased. More
and more visitors came to see him, other monks settled down near
his cell, and a church was erected there and also a hostelry.
His fame, as usual exaggerating his feats, spread ever more and
more widely. People began to come to him from a distance, and
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