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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: Maggie turned and went.
The crowd at the door fell back precipitately. A baby falling
down in front of the door, wrenched a scream like a wounded animal
from its mother. Another woman sprang forward and picked it up,
with a chivalrous air, as if rescuing a human being from an
oncoming express train.
As the girl passed down through the hall, she went before open
doors framing more eyes strangely microscopic, and sending broad
beams of inquisitive light into the darkness of her path. On the
second floor she met the gnarled old woman who possessed the music box.
"So," she cried, "'ere yehs are back again, are yehs? An'
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets |
