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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: so direct as to demand a positive answer was addressed to her.
Reluctantly, and with much hesitation, did she then
begin what might perhaps, at the end of half an hour,
be termed, by the courtesy of her hearers, an explanation;
but scarcely, within that time, could they at all discover
the cause, or collect the particulars, of her sudden return.
They were far from being an irritable race; far from
any quickness in catching, or bitterness in resenting,
affronts: but here, when the whole was unfolded,
was an insult not to be overlooked, nor, for the first
half hour, to be easily pardoned. Without suffering any
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