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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: and see us!" Jude returned. "Well, it can't be helped, dear; and of
course I wouldn't wish to injure Willis's trade-connection by staying."
They sat down passively for a few minutes, proceeded out of the church,
and overtaking the boy pursued their thoughtful way to Aldbrickham.
Fawley had still a pretty zeal in the cause of education, and,
as was natural with his experiences, he was active in furthering
"equality of opportunity" by any humble means open to him.
He had joined an Artizans' Mutual Improvement Society established
in the town about the time of his arrival there; its members being
young men of all creeds and denominations, including Churchmen,
Congregationalists, Baptists, Unitarians, Positivists, and others--
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