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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar: hemorrhage, and he died from weakness. Just three hours ago. He
said he wanted to get home and give Louisette her diamond ring,
when the bayou overflowed."
MR. BAPTISTE
He might have had another name; we never knew. Some one had
christened him Mr. Baptiste long ago in the dim past, and it
sufficed. No one had ever been known who had the temerity to ask
him for another cognomen, for though he was a mild-mannered
little man, he had an uncomfortable way of shutting up
oyster-wise and looking disagreeable when approached concerning
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