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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: couples I blossom. Newly-engaged couples, mothers with first babies, and
normal deathbeds have precisely the same effect on me. Shall we join the
others?"
I was longing to ask her why normal deathbeds should cause anyone to burst
into flower, and said, "Yes, do let us."
We were greeted by the little party of "cure guests" on the pension steps,
with those cries of joy and excitement which herald so pleasantly the
mildest German excursion. Herr Erchardt and I had not met before that day,
so, in accordance with strict pension custom, we asked each other how long
we had slept during the night, had we dreamed agreeably, what time we had
got up, was the coffee fresh when we had appeared at breakfast, and how had
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