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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: up the whole gang at daylight. But here and there
some few got acquainted and overlooked the discom-
forts of the elements. There was five engagements to
be married announced at the flats the next morning.
About midnight I gets up and wrings the dew out
of my hair, and goes to the side of the driveway
and sits down. At one side of the park I could see
the lights in the streets and houses; and I was thinking
how happy them folks was who could chase the duck
and smoke their pipes at their windows, and keep cool
and pleasant like nature intended for 'em to.
The Voice of the City | 
