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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: `You've got something on your mind, Antonia,' she said anxiously.
`Yes, Mrs. Burden. I couldn't sleep much last night.' She hesitated,
and then told us how strangely Mr. Cutter had behaved before he went away.
He put all the silver in a basket and placed it under her bed,
and with it a box of papers which he told her were valuable.
He made her promise that she would not sleep away from the house,
or be out late in the evening, while he was gone. He strictly forbade
her to ask any of the girls she knew to stay with her at night.
She would be perfectly safe, he said, as he had just put a new Yale
lock on the front door.
Cutter had been so insistent in regard to these details that now she felt
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