| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: Cocheforet helped his sister to mount, and within five minutes we
were gone. Casting a glance back from the skirts of the wood I
fancied that I saw the masked man straighten himself and turn to
look after us, but the leaves were beginning to intervene, the
distance may have cheated me. And yet I was not indisposed to
think the unknown a trifle more observant, and a little less
seriously hurt, than he seemed.
CHAPTER XIII
AT THE FINGER-POST
Through all, it will have been noticed, Mademoiselle had not
spoken to me, nor said one word, good or bad. She had played her
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: and prevent ignorance from intruding on us. But whether by acting
according to knowledge we shall act well and be happy, my dear Critias,--
this is a point which we have not yet been able to determine.
Yet I think, he replied, that if you discard knowledge, you will hardly
find the crown of happiness in anything else.
But of what is this knowledge? I said. Just answer me that small question.
Do you mean a knowledge of shoemaking?
God forbid.
Or of working in brass?
Certainly not.
Or in wool, or wood, or anything of that sort?
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Confessio Amantis by John Gower: It stant noght in my sufficance
So grete thinges to compasse,
Bot I mot lete it overpasse
And treten upon othre thinges.
Forthi the Stile of my writinges
Fro this day forth I thenke change
And speke of thing is noght so strange, 10
Which every kinde hath upon honde,
And wherupon the world mot stonde,
And hath don sithen it began,
And schal whil ther is any man;
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