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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: lets them do as they please; as though indifferent to what is
happening, she exhibits neither encouragement nor regret. Whoso
will goes; whoso will remains behind.
First these, then those, according as they feel themselves duly
soaked with sunshine, the little ones leave the mother in batches,
run about for a moment on the ground and then quickly reach the
trellis-work of the cage, which they climb with surprising
alacrity. They pass through the meshes, they clamber right to the
top of the citadel. All, with not one exception, make for the
heights, instead of roaming on the ground, as might reasonably be
expected from the eminently earthly habits of the Lycosae; all
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