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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: receive it in such a way, but I can have it. Do you blame me
very much?"
Hope hesitated. "I cannot blame you so much, my child," she
said, "as if I thought it were money for which you cared. It
seems to me that there must be something beside that, and
yet--"
"O Hope, how I thank you," interrupted Emilia. "It is not
money. You know I do not care about money, except just to buy
my clothes and things. At least, I do not care about so much
as he has,--more than a million dollars, only think! Perhaps
they said two million. Is it wrong for me to marry him, just
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