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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris: the little dining-room, looking down upon the darkening city, he
had loved her. Why, all his days for the last few months had been
full of the love of her.
How else had he been so happy? how else did it come about that
little by little he was withdrawing from the society and influence
of his artificial world, as represented by such men as Sargeant?
how else was he slowly loosening the grip of the one evil and
vicious habit that had clutched him so long? how else was his
ambition stirring? how else was his hitherto aimless enthusiasm
hardening to energy and determination? She had not always so
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