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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: affair. It is simply that either he is not the man we all think him or you are
acting in a way unbecoming a Zane. I do not purpose to have this state of
affairs continue. Now, enough of this beating about the bush."
Betty had seen the Colonel angry more than once, but never with her. It was
quite certain she had angered him and she forgot her own resentment. Her heart
had warmed with her brother's praise of Clarke. Then as she remembered the
past the felt a scorn for her weakness and such a revulsion of feeling that
she cried out passionately:
"He is a trifler. He never cared for me. He insulted me."
Col. Zane reached for his hat, got up without saying another word and went
down stairs.
Betty Zane | 
