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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: May days, and the wind was blowing and the colts jumping
around in the pastures; but I felt bowed with despair.
My Antonia, that had so much good in her, had come home disgraced.
And that Lena Lingard, that was always a bad one, say what you will,
had turned out so well, and was coming home here every summer
in her silks and her satins, and doing so much for her mother.
I give credit where credit is due, but you know well enough,
Jim Burden, there is a great difference in the principles of those
two girls. And here it was the good one that had come to grief!
I was poor comfort to her. I marvelled at her calm.
As we went back to the house, she stopped to feel of her clothes
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