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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: pieces a hand of whist with more antagonism.
Steve continued: "Would we head for Idaho? Would we swing back
over the Divide? You didn't know which! And when we generalled
you on to that band of horses you thought was the band you were
hunting--ah, we were a strong combination!" He broke off with the
first touch of bitterness I had felt in his words.
"Nothing is any stronger than its weakest point." It was the
Virginian who said this, and it was the first word he had spoken.
"Naturally," said Steve. His tone in addressing the Virginian was
so different, so curt, that I sup posed he took the weakest point
to mean himself. But the others now showed me that I was wrong in
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