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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Mother by Owen Wister: gazed at the Wall Street edition of the afternoon paper that I had
purchased as I came through the Grand Central Station. Ethel and I read
it in the evening."
"'I wonder what she's buying now?' said Ethel, vindictively."
"'Well, I can't help feeling sorry for her,' I answered, with as much of
a smile as I could produce."
"'That is so unnecessary, Richard! She can easily afford to gratify her
gambling instinct.'"
"'There you go, Ethel, inventing millions for her just as you invented
grandchildren.'"
"'Not at all. Unless she constantly had money lying idle, she could not
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