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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: We were all housed together in an old, old country inn, the inn
of Fallow, which village lies sleeping at the foot of the
Cotswold Hills. We knew the place well. Few stones of it had
been set one upon the other less than three hundred years ago,
and, summer and winter alike, it was a spot of great beauty
-comparatively little known, too, and far enough from London to
escape most tourists. The inn itself had sheltered Cromwell, and
before his time better men than he had warmed themselves at the
great hearth round which we sat. For all that, he had given his
name to the panelled room. Our bedrooms were as old,
low-pitched and full of beams. The stairs also were a great
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