The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: Carmencita's roguish merriment at their confusion.
"I AM all those things you mentioned and a heap more you forgot
to say," claimed the ranger boldly, to relieve the situation.
"Only I didn't know for sure that folks had found it out. My
mind's a heap easier to know I'm being appreciated proper at
last."
Under her long, dark lashes Miss Carmencita looked at him in
gentle derision. "I'm of opinion, sir, that you get all the
appreciation that is good for you."
Bucky carried the war into the enemy's country. "Which same, I
expect, might be said of Chihuahua's most beautiful belle. And,
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