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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: that had, as yet, presented itself. She made the trip.
And upon the street-railway cars, upon the ferryboats, on the
locomotives and way-coaches of the local trains, she was reminded
of her father's death, and of the giant power that had reduced
her to her present straits, by the letters, P. and S. W. R. R.
To her mind, they occurred everywhere. She seemed to see them in
every direction. She fancied herself surrounded upon every hand
by the long arms of the monster.
Minute after minute, her hunger gnawed at her. She could not
keep her mind from it. As she sat on the boat, she found herself
curiously scanning the faces of the passengers, wondering how
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