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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine: should be walled off from all these people who earn the bread I
eat?"
"But your friends . . . your father. . ."
Her ironic smile derided him. "So after all you haven't the
courage of your convictions. Because I'm Peter C. Frome's daughter
I'm not to have the right to live."
"No, it's your right to take hold of life with both hands. But
surely you must live it among your own people."
"I've got to learn how to live it first, haven't I?
Most of my friends are not even aware there a problem of poverty.
They thrust the thought of it from them. Our wealthy class has no
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