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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: from the first station, by telegraph."
He turned back to the door, forcing an answer to her smile. "But
in the mean while I shall have read it," he said.
The door closed on him, and she hid her eyes from the dreadful
emptiness of the room.
The End
THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD HAND
as first published in
Atlantic Monthly, August 1904
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"Above all," the letter ended, "don't leave Siena without seeing
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