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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: that as a study of determinism Professor Lupton ranks it with
'The Data of Ethics.'"
"I'm told that Osric Dane spent ten years in preparatory studies
before beginning to write it," said Mrs. Plinth. "She looks up
everything--verifies everything. It has always been my
principle, as you know. Nothing would induce me, now, to put
aside a book before I'd finished it, just because I can buy as
many more as I want."
"And what do YOU think of 'The Wings of Death'?" Mrs. Roby
abruptly asked her.
It was the kind of question that might be termed out of order,
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