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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: silence for half a mile. After she had slowed down to a walk, he
continued placidly, as if oblivious of an interruption:
"I said in that letter that I had just met the young lady I was
expecting to marry."
"Dear me, how interesting! Was she in the smoker?"
"No, she was in Section 3 of the Pullman."
"I wish I had happened to go into the other Pullman, but, of
course, I couldn't know the young lady you were interested in was
riding there."
"She wasn't."
"But you've just told me "
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