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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: she went out ready for the ride.
A number of cowboys were waiting. She explained the situation
and left them in charge of her home. With that she asked Nels to
accompany her down into the desert. He turned white to his lips,
and this occasioned Madeline to remember his mortal dread of the
car and Link's driving.
"Nels, I'm sorry to ask you," she added. "I know you hate the
car. But I need you--may need you, oh! so much."
"Why, Miss Majesty, thet's shore all a mistaken idee of yours
about me hatin' the car," he said, in his slow, soft drawl. "I
was only jealous of Link; an' the boys, they made thet joke up on
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