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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: there was plenty in the house without it, she wrapped this loaf
up in a napkin, and sent her husband back with it to where it had
started from first of all.
"Well," said the rich man to his wife, "the way of Heaven is not
to be changed." And so he laid the money on the shelf until he
who had given it to him should come again, and thought no more of
giving it to the beggar.
At the end of seven days the king called upon the rich man again,
and this time he came in his own guise as a real king. "Well,"
said he, "is the poor man the richer for his money?"
"No," said the rich man, "he is not"; and then he told the whole
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