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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: very desirous to make it appear so. It was disagreeable, too, to
walk behind, and thus appear to acknowledge my own inferiority;
for, in truth, I considered myself pretty nearly as good as the
best of them, and wished them to know that I did so, and not to
imagine that I looked upon myself as a mere domestic, who knew her
own place too well to walk beside such fine ladies and gentlemen as
they were - though her young ladies might choose to have her with
them, and even condescend to converse with her when no better
company were at hand. Thus - I am almost ashamed to confess it -
but indeed I gave myself no little trouble in my endeavours (if I
did keep up with them) to appear perfectly unconscious or
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