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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: spoke as if he urged it.
"Never!" she cried. "Never, never!"
She pushed it from her. She would not brook such sacrifice on his
part. Were they not going to her mother in four weeks? If her
family had warmly accepted him--but they had not; and in any
case, it had gone too far, it was too late. She told her lover
that she would not hear him, that if he said any more she would
gallop into town separately from him. And for his sake she would
hide deep from him this loneliness of hers, and the hurt that he
had given her in refusing to share with her his trouble with
Trampas, when others must know of it.
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