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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Emma McChesney & Co. by Edna Ferber: morning in severely tailored white-linen blouse, the shop on
Tuesday was a Boston seminary in its starched primness.
"It worries me," Emma told her husband-partner. "I can't
help thinking of the story of the girl and the pet chameleon.
What would happen if I were to forget myself some day and come
down to work in black velvet and pearls?"
"They'd manage it somehow," Buck assured her. "I don't know
just how; but I'm sure that twenty-four hours later our shop
would look like a Buckingham drawing-room when the court is in
mourning."
Emma never ceased to marvel at their ingenuity, at their almost
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