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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: gullibility. In a kind of chilly anger I put on my coat and hat.
Tripp, submissive, cringing, vainly endeavoring to please, conducted
me via the street-cars to the human pawn-shop of Mother McGinnis. I
paid the fares. It seemed that the collodion-scented Don Quixote and
the smallest minted coin were strangers.
Tripp pulled the bell at the door of the mouldly red-brick boarding-
house. At its faint tinkle he paled, and crouched as a rabbit makes
ready to spring away at the sound of a hunting-dog. I guessed what a
life he had led, terror-haunted by the coming footsteps of landladies.
"Give me one of the dollars--quick!" he said.
The door opened six inches. Mother McGinnis stood there with white
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