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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: tishly to him dressed for a ball, and knowing that
she was pretty. He dreaded the passionate
glances which fell upon her, that she not only did
not understand but rejoiced in. "Yes," thought
he, "that superstition of woman's purity! Quite
the contrary, they do not know shame--they lack
this sense " He remembered how, quite inexpli-
cably to him, she had refused two very good suit-
ors. She had become more and more fascinated
by her own success in the round of gaieties she
lived in.
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