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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: adopted sister of all young men, up to the time when they
respectively offer themselves to her, and again after they are
rejected. This post was filled in Oldport, in those days, by
my cousin Kate.
Born into the world with many other gifts, this last and least
definable gift of popularity was added to complete them all.
Nobody criticised her, nobody was jealous of her, her very
rivals lent her their new music and their lovers; and her own
discarded wooers always sought her to be a bridesmaid when they
married somebody else.
She was one of those persons who seem to have come into the
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