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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: most obtuse could not have failed to read the old
simile of the steel in the velvet. "I shall win be-
cause it is my nature--and my power--to hold what
I grasp."
"But if they persistently refuse--"
"Dios!" she interrupted him. "Do you think that
your love is greater than mine? I was born with a
thousand years of love in me and had you not come
I should have gone alone with my dreams to the
grave. I am all women in one, not merely Concha
Arguello, a girl of sixteen." She clasped her hands
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