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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: old hat!"
At the end of this affecting appeal the German rose. He went to the box at
the foot of his bed; out of it he took a black hat, which had evidently
been seldom worn and carefully preserved.
"It's not exactly what you may have been accustomed to," he said nervously,
putting it down beside the battered chimneypot, "but it might be of some
use--a protection to the head, you know."
"My friend," said Bonaparte, "you are not following my advice; you are
allowing yourself to be reproached on my account. Do not make yourself
unhappy. No; I shall go bare-headed."
"No, no, no!" cried the German energetically. "I have no use for the hat,
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