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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: and so you will kindly get me my hat and jacket and gloves.'
That's what she would have said to you, my dear."
"And I"--said Celia, rising after a moment's pause,
and putting her hand upon Edith's arm--"I would have answered,
'Dearest lady, in whatever befalls, I pray you never to forget
that I am to the end your fond and devoted and loyal servant.'"
CHAPTER XIX
AUGUST wore itself out in parched tedium, and a September
began which seemed even more unbearable in town,--and
still Thorpe did not get away from London.
So far as the payment of an exorbitant rent in advance,
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