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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: on. But I hope to discover a few later. The sun may bring them
out.'
'Like freckles. Well, you are a lucky woman. Mine had plenty, I
assure you. Untidiness was no name for Jessie, and Mary--I'm SORRY
to say that Mary sometimes fibbed.'
'How lovable of her! Cecily's neatness is a painful example to me,
and I don't believe she would tell a fib to save my life.'
'Tell me,' said Mrs. Morgan, as the lunch-bell rang and she gathered
her occupation into her work-basket, 'who is that talking to her?'
'Oh, an old friend,' I replied easily; 'Dacres Tottenham, a dear
fellow, and most benevolent. He is trying on my behalf to reconcile
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