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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: fool. Hope, I am not worthy of you; why do you love me? why do
you trust me?"
"I do not know how I learned to love you," said Hope. "It is a
blessing that was given to me. But I learned to trust you in
your mother's sick-room."
"Ay," said Philip, sadly, "there, at least, I did my full
duty."
"As few would have done it," said Hope, firmly,--"very few.
Such prolonged self-sacrifice must strengthen a man for life."
"Not always," said Philip, uneasily. "Too much of that sort of
thing may hurt one, I fancy, as well as too little. He may come
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