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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: and may you ever be so! Heaven forbid I should ever make you
otherwise; but give me a word of comfort. Say something kind to
me. I have no right to expect it of you, I know, but I ask it
because I love you, and shall treasure the slightest word from you
all through my life. Dolly, dearest, have you nothing to say to
me?'
No. Nothing. Dolly was a coquette by nature, and a spoilt child.
She had no notion of being carried by storm in this way. The
coachmaker would have been dissolved in tears, and would have knelt
down, and called himself names, and clasped his hands, and beat his
breast, and tugged wildly at his cravat, and done all kinds of
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