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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: heard you'd be paying the boys this morning, and I've come for my
time."
"You're thinking of leaving us?" asked the new foreman. "What's
your dissatisfaction?"
"Oh, I'm not needing anybody back of me. I'll get along by
myself." It was thus he revealed his expectation of being
dismissed by his enemy.
This would have knocked any meditated generosity out of my heart.
But I was not the Virginian. He shifted his legs, leaned back a
little, and laughed. "Go back to your job, Trampas, if that's all
your complaint. You're right about me being in luck. But maybe
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