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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: embarrassment, filial duty and woman's wit would
extricate them both with grace and avert the enmity
of the Russian even though the latter's more per-
sonal interest in California must die in his disap-
pointment. He would make her feel the weight of
the stern paternal hand, and then indicate the part
she had to play.
He rang a bell and directed the servant to sum-
mon his daughter, drew himself up to his full height,
and set his rugged face in hard lines. As Concha
entered he looked the Commandante, the stern disci-
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