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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: tremendous house with round white pillars about a thousand feet high,
and the yard was so full of rose-bushes and box-bushes and lilacs that
you couldn't have seen the house if it hadn't been as big as the
Capitol at Washington.
"'Here's where I have to trail,' says I to myself. "I thought before
that she seemed to be in moderate circumstances, at least. This must
be the Governor's mansion, or the Agricultural Building of a new
World's Fair, anyhow. I'd better go back to the village and get
posted by the postmaster, or drug the druggist for some information.
"In the village I found a pine hotel called the Bay View House. The
only excuse for the name was a bay horse grazing in the front yard. I
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