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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Spirit of the Border by Zane Grey: George, pushing Dave out of the door.
"You won't go--first?" whispered Dave, clinging to the door.
"I won't go at all. I couldn't ask her--I don't want her--go! Get out!"
Dave started reluctantly toward the adjoining cabin, from the open window of
which came the song of the young woman who was responsible for all this
trouble. George flung himself on his bed. What a relief to feel it was all
over! He lay there with eves shut for hours, as it seemed. After a time Dave
came in. George leaped to his feet and saw his friend stumbling over a chair.
Somehow, Dave did not look as usual. He seemed changed, or shrunken, and his
face wore a discomfited, miserable expression.
"Well?" cried George, sharply. Even to his highly excited imagination this did
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