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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: of poverty and want, Felix carried with pleasure to his sister the
first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground.
Early in the morning, before she had risen, he cleared away the snow
that obstructed her path to the milk-house, drew water from the well,
and brought the wood from the outhouse, where, to his perpetual astonishment,
he found his store always replenished by an invisible hand. In the day,
I believe, he worked sometimes for a neighbouring farmer, because he often
went forth and did not return until dinner, yet brought no wood with him.
At other times he worked in the garden, but as there was little to do
in the frosty season, he read to the old man and Agatha.
"This reading had puzzled me extremely at first, but by degrees I
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