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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: go away. Well, do as you like. I'll go away myself, and you
stay."
We returned to the drawing-room, she with a resolute face, while
I shrugged my shoulders and tried to smile. There were some more
visitors -- an elderly lady and a young man in spectacles.
Without greeting the new arrivals or taking leave of the others,
I went off to my own rooms.
After what had happened at tea and then again downstairs, it
became clear to me that our "family happiness," which we had
begun to forget about in the course of the last two years, was
through some absurd and trivial reason beginning all over again,
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