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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: listening to the technicalities of the corn trade. At last
she said suddenly, "Did you tell him where you were going
to?"
"No."
"O--how was that?"
"I thought it safer to get away first--as he is so uncertain
in his temper."
"Perhaps you are right....Besides, I have never told you my
name. It is Miss Templeman....Are they gone--on the other
side?"
"No. They have only gone up into the granary."
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