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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: never be!
Now in all these half-formed, hurried, distressing thoughts which
streamed through the girl's mind, she altogether forgot one
truth. True it was that the voice of the world would speak as she
imagined. True it was that in the eyes of her family and
acquaintance this lover of her choice would be examined even more
like a SPECIMEN than are other lovers upon these occasions: and
all accepted lovers have to face this ordeal of being treated
like specimens by the other family. But dear me! most of us
manage to stand it, don t we? It isn't, perhaps, the most
delicious experience that we can recall in connection with our
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