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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: the work over there. Now, haven't you? Own up."
Annie laughed sweetly. She was so happy that
no sense of injury could possibly rankle within her.
"Oh, well," she said, lightly. "Perhaps. I don't
know. I guess housekeeping comes rather easier
to me than to the others. I like it, you know, and
work is always easier when one likes it. The other
girls don't take to it so naturally, and they get very
tired, and it has seemed often that I was the one
who could hurry the work through and not mind."
"I wonder if you will stick up for me the way you
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