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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: about the walls, the music coming from a couple of fiddlers in a corner of
the room. Bride and bridegroom open the ball, and the floor is soon
covered with whirling couples, and every one's spirits rise. The bridal
pair mingle freely in the throng, and here and there a musical man sings
vigorously as he drags his partner through the Blue Water or John Speriwig;
boys shout and applaud, and the enjoyment and confusion are intense, till
eleven o'clock comes. By this time the children who swarm in the side-
rooms are not to be kept quiet longer, even by hunches of bread and cake;
there is a general howl and wail, that rises yet higher than the scraping
of fiddles, and mothers rush from their partners to knock small heads
together, and cuff little nursemaids, and force the wailers down into
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