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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: But success attended the caucus; each mother emerged, satisfied
that she had received her own, and each sire, now that his family
was itself again, began to look at his neighbor sideways. After a
man has been angry enough to kill another man, after the fire of
righteous slaughter has raged in his heart as it had certainly
raged for several hours in the hearts of these fathers, the flame
will usually burn itself out. This will be so in a generous
nature, unless the cause of the anger is still unchanged. But the
children had been identified; none had taken hurt. All had been
humanely given their nourishment. The thing was over. The day was
beautiful. A tempting feast remained from the barbecue. These
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