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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: it at all. But from noble people"--and I looked hard at her--"one ex-
pects, sooner or later, noble things."
She repressed something she had been going to reply.
"If ever I have children," I finished, "they shall know 'Dixie' and
'Yankee Doodle' by heart, and never know the difference. By that time I
should think they might have a chance of hearing 'Yankee Doodle' in Kings
Port."
Again she checked a rapid retort. "Well," she, after a pause, repeated,
"you have been really quite nice."
"May I tell you what you have been?"
"Certainly not. Have you seen Mr. Mayrant to-day?"
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