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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: and on moonshiny nights, because we are then nearest together; and
I never sleep without leaving you half my blanket. When I first
begin to wake I always feel your breath, so we are never really
parted for long. I do not know that I can change much; it is not
easy; it is like making up your mind to have different colored eyes
and hair, and I can only get sunburnt and wear a full beard. But
we are hardly as unhappy as we feared to be; mother came the other
night, in a dream, and took us on her knees. Oh, come to me,
Jonathan, but for one day! No, you will not find me; I am going
across the Plains!"
And Jonathan and Ruth? They loved each other tenderly; no external
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