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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling: worth hearing. Natives hated Strickland; but they were afraid of
him. He knew too much.
When the Youghals came into the station, Strickland--very gravely,
as he did everything--fell in love with Miss Youghal; and she,
after a while, fell in love with him because she could not
understand him. Then Strickland told the parents; but Mrs. Youghal
said she was not going to throw her daughter into the worst paid
Department in the Empire, and old Youghal said, in so many words,
that he mistrusted Strickland's ways and works, and would thank him
not to speak or write to his daughter any more. "Very well," said
Strickland, for he did not wish to make his lady-love's life a
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