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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: "Yes, ma'am." He looked aggrieved, thinking himself a man grown.
"How did y'u say Mr. Bannister was?"
"Wait, and I'll send Nora out to tell you," she flashed, and
disappeared in the house.
Conversation at the bunkhouse and the chucktent sometimes circled
around the young women at the house, but its personality rarely
grew pronounced. References to Helen Messiter and the housemaid
were usually by way of repartee at each other. For a change had
come over the spirit of the Lazy D men, and, though a cheerful
profanity still flowed freely when they were alone together,
vulgarity was largely banished.
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