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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: In August he started for the railroad, going on foot and without
money, his immediate destination the harvest fields of some distant
ranch, his object to earn his train fare to New York.
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The summer passed slowly. To David and Elizabeth it was a long
waiting, but with this difference, that David was kept alive by
hope, and that Elizabeth felt sometimes that hope was killing her.
To David each day was a new day, and might hold Dick. To Elizabeth,
after a time, each day was but one more of separation.
Doctor Reynolds had become a fixture in the old house, but he was
not like Dick. He was a heavy, silent young man, shy of intruding
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