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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: where he could earn an open-air living, and save his parents from the
burden of his support.
"What's Halket doing over there?" he asked suddenly, raising his head.
"Weren't you here this morning?" asked the Colonial. "Didn't you know
they'd had a devil of a row?"
"Who?" asked the Englishman, half raising himself on his elbows.
"Halket and the Captain." The Colonial paused in the plucking. "My God,
you never saw anything like it!"
The Englishman sat upright now, and looked keenly over the bushes where
Halket's bent head might be seen as he paced to and fro.
"What's he doing out there in this blazing sun?"
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