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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Silas Marner by George Eliot: alive, child, let us look at this gown," cut off Godfrey's hopes of
a quarrel.
"I suppose I must go now," he said to Priscilla.
"It's no matter to me whether you go or stay," said that frank
lady, searching for something in her pocket, with a preoccupied
brow.
"Do _you_ want me to go?" said Godfrey, looking at Nancy, who was
now standing up by Priscilla's order.
"As you like," said Nancy, trying to recover all her former
coldness, and looking down carefully at the hem of her gown.
"Then I like to stay," said Godfrey, with a reckless determination
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