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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: telling you good-bye."
"Go?" exclaimed Lin. "Go where? Yu' surely ain't leavin' me to eat
breakfast alone?" The cow-puncher made his voice very plaintive. Set
Responsibility free after all his trouble to catch him? This was more
than he could do!
"I've got to go. If I'd thought you'd want for me to stay--why, you said
you was a-going by the early train!"
"But the durned thing's got away on me," said Lin, smiling sweetly from
the bed.
"If I hadn't a-promised them--"
"Who?"
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