The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: solitary walk, quitted the house. Alice, after she had put
the dinner things away, went upstairs, and stayed there.
Left to himself, Theron spent the afternoon in the
easy-chair, and, in the intervals of confused introspection,
read "Recollections of my Youth" through again from cover
to cover.
He went through the remarkable experiences attending
the opening of the revival, when evening came, as one in
a dream. Long before the hour for the service arrived,
the sexton came in to tell him that the church was already
nearly full, and that it was going to be impossible
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