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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: "That would have been so simple," she answered with a strange
smile. She dropped into a chair near the writing-table and rested
a bowed forehead on her hand.
"Was it much--?" she began at length.
"Much--?" he returned, vaguely.
"The money."
"The money?" That part of it seemed to count so little that for a
moment he did not follow her thought.
"It must be paid back," she insisted. "Can you do it?"
"Oh, yes," he returned, listlessly. "I can do it."
"I would make any sacrifice for that!" she urged.
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