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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: "Thank you for those new books, Mr. Farfrae," she added
shyly. "I wonder if I ought to accept so many!"
"Ay! why not? It gives me more pleasure to get them for you,
than you to have them!"
"It cannot."
They proceeded along the road together till they reached the
town, and their paths diverged.
Henchard vowed that he would leave them to their own
devices, put nothing in the way of their courses, whatever
they might mean. If he were doomed to be bereft of
her, so it must be. In the situation which their marriage
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