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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: beautiful woman made of alabaster, and around the neck of the
statue was a thread of gold. The queen stood beside the statue,
and beat and beat it with her steel-tipped whip. And all the
while she lashed it the statue sighed and groaned like a living
being, and the tears ran down its stone cheeks as though it were
a suffering Christian. By-and-by the queen rested for a moment,
and said, panting, "Will you give me the thread of gold?" and the
statue answered "No." Whereupon she fell to raining blows upon it
as she had done before.
So she continued, now beating the statue and now asking it
whether it would give her the thread of gold, to which the statue
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