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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: farm-land yields abundant crops of wheat and oats and potatoes to a
community of industrious habitants, who live in little modern
villages, named after the saints and gathered as closely as
possible around big gray stone churches, and thank the good Lord
that he has given them a climate at least four or five degrees
milder than Quebec. A railroad, built through a region of granite
hills, which will never be tamed to the plough, links this outlying
settlement to the civilised world; and at the end of the railroad
the Hotel Roberval, standing on a hill above the lake, offers to
the pampered tourist electric lights, and spring-beds, and a wide
veranda from which he can look out across the water into the face
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