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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: When I saw him next, and thanked him, I suppose I showed
some apprehension about his having laid out money on them,
and he, just to ease my mind, invented the story about his
getting them for nothing. When I found out the truth--
I got it out of that boy, Harvey Semple--he admitted it
quite frankly--said he was wrong to deceive me."
"This was in the fine first fervor of his term of probation,
I suppose," put in Theron. He made no effort to dissemble
the sneer in his voice.
"Well," answered Alice, with a touch of acerbity,
"I have told you now, and it is off my mind. There never
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