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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe: the bundle to hold. It seems she was going with her mistress,
whom she had been gone to fetch, to the Barnet coaches.
I saw she was in haste, and I had no business to stop her; so
away she went, and I brought my bundle safe home to my
governess. There was no money, nor plate, or jewels in the
bundle, but a very good suit of Indian damask, a gown and a
petticoat, a laced-head and ruffles of very good Flanders lace,
and some linen and other things, such as I knew very well the
value of.
This was not indeed my own invention, but was given me by
one that had practised it with success, and my governess liked
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