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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: so fine and straight and splendid, it jest seemed
plumb unpossible to make a move. There was a
spirit in him that couldn't be killed. Doctor Kirby
said afterward that was what come of being real
"quality," which was what Colonel Tom was--
it was that in him that licked 'em. It was the best
part of their own selves, and the best part of their
own country, speaking out of him to them, that done
it. Mebby so. Anyhow, after a minute more of
that strain, a feller by the door picks up his gun out
of the corner with a scrape, and hists it to his
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