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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: "It's too blamed grand to tell yu'. I'll leave yu' to see it
happen. Keep around, that's all. Keep around. I pretty near wish
I didn't know it myself."
What with my feelings at Scipio's discretion, and my human
curiosity, I was not in that mood which best profits from a
sermon. Yet even though my expectations had been cruelly left
quivering in mid air, I was not sure how much I really wanted to
"keep around." You will therefore understand how Dr. MacBride was
able to make a prayer and to read Scripture without my being
conscious of a word that he had uttered. It was when I saw him
opening the manuscript of his sermon that I suddenly remembered I
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