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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: were good enough for him, and yet she must have been there."
Clym tried to imagine Venn's choice for a moment;
but ceasing to be interested in the question he went
on again with his gardening.
No clearing up of the mystery was granted her for some time.
But one afternoon Thomasin was upstairs getting ready
for a walk, when she had occasion to come to the landing
and call "Rachel." Rachel was a girl about thirteen,
who carried the baby out for airings; and she came upstairs
at the call.
"Have you seen one of my last new gloves about the house,
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