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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: furniture, flows the benign influence of undispersed memories; it sheds
its tempered radiance upon the old miniatures, and upon every fresh
flower that comes in from the garden; it seems to pass through the open
doors to and fro like a tranquil blessing; it is beyond joy and pain,
because time has distilled it from both of these; it is the assembled
essence of kinship and blood unity, enriched by each succeeding brood
that is born, is married, is fruitful in its turn, and dies remembered;
only the balm of faith is stronger to sustain and heal; for that comes
from heaven, while it is earth that gives us this; and the sacred cup of
it which our native land once held is almost empty.
Amid this influence John and Eliza were made one, and the faces of the
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