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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: everything right easy for you!" There was irony in his voice as
he surveyed me, but it fell away at once into sadness. "Both was
miscreants. But if Steve had played the coward, too, it would
have been a whole heap easier for me." He paused before adding,
"And Steve was not a miscreant once."
His voice had trembled, and I felt the deep emotion that seemed
to gain upon him now that action was over and he had nothing to
do but think. And his view was simple enough: you must die brave.
Failure is a sort of treason to the brotherhood, and forfeits
pity. It was Steve's perfect bearing that had caught his heart so
that he forgot even his scorn of the other man.
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