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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: Hilma put down the plates and came around the table and kissed
him without a word.
As soon as their dinner was over, Annixter had the carry-all
hitched up, and, dispensing with young Vacca, drove over to the
hop ranch with Hilma.
Hilma could not keep back the tears as they passed through the
lamentable desolation of the withered, brown vines, symbols of
perished hopes and abandoned effort, and Annixter swore between
his teeth.
Though the wheels of the carry-all grated loudly on the roadway
in front of the house, nobody came to the door nor looked from
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