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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: later on a country road, gave him uneasy qualms as to its brilliance.
At the luncheon table he was almost hilarious, and David played up
to him, albeit rather heavily. But Lucy was thoughtful and quiet.
She had a sense of things somehow closing down on them, of hands
reaching out from the past, and clutching; Mrs. Morgan, Beverly
Carlysle, Dick in love and possibly going back to Norada. Unlike
David, who was content that one emergency had passed, she looked
ahead and saw their common life a series of such chances, with
their anxieties and their dangers.
She could not eat.
Nevertheless when she herself admitted a new patient for Dick that
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