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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "I suppose I ought to get up and curtsey."
"If you do, I shall have to rise and make you a leg, so please
don't."
For a moment she smiled into the fire. Then:
"I wonder if two people have ever sat here before, as we're
sitting now?"
"Many a time," said I. "Runaway couples, you know. I expect
the old wood walls think we're another pair."
"They can't see, though."
"No. Born blind. That's why they hear so well. And they never
forget. These four"- with a sweep of my cigarette- "have long
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