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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: "What is it made of?" asked Arabella curiously.
"Well--a distillation of the juices of doves' hearts--otherwise pigeons'--
is one of the ingredients. It took nearly a hundred hearts to produce that
small bottle full."
"How do you get pigeons enough?"
"To tell a secret, I get a piece of rock-salt, of which pigeons
are inordinately fond, and place it in a dovecot on my roof.
In a few hours the birds come to it from all points of the compass--
east, west, north, and south--and thus I secure as many as I require.
You use the liquid by contriving that the desired man shall take
about ten drops of it in his drink. But remember, all this is told you
Jude the Obscure | 
