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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: they?
Chalk hills too. The chalk is on both sides of us now. These are
the Chilterns, all away to Ipsden and Nettlebed, and so on across
Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, and into Hertfordshire; and on
again to Royston and Cambridge, while below them lies the Vale of
Aylesbury; you can just see the beginning of it on their left. A
pleasant land are those hills, and wealthy; full of noble houses
buried in the deep beech-woods, which once were a great forest,
stretching in a ring round the north of London, full of deer and
boar, and of wild bulls too, even as late as the twelfth century,
according to the old legend of Thomas e Becket's father and the
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