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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: well enough through the millstone now, and that he, too, might
have had one of the fruit if he had but held his tongue a little
longer.
Yes, he saw what a fool he had made of himself, when he learned
that it was an angel with whom he had been travelling the five
days gone.
But, then, we are all of us like the servant for the matter of
that; I, too, have travelled with an angel many a day, I dare
say, and never knew it.
That night the servant lodged with the widow and her son, and the
next day he started back home again upon the way he had travelled
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