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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: bedside had filled his face with diabolic elation as he confronted his
victim's enraged but checkmated aunt; when to the thinly veiled venom of
her inquiry as to a bridegroom's health he had retorted with venom as
thinly veiled that he was feeling better that night than for many weeks,
he had looked better, too; the ladies had exclaimed after his departure
what a handsome young man he was, and Juno had remarked how fervently she
trusted that marriage might cure him of his deplorable tendencies. But
to-day his vitality had sagged off beneath the weight of his
preoccupation: it looked to me as if, by a day or two more, the boy's
face might be grown haggard.
Whether by intention, or, as is more likely, by the perfectly natural and
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