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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Market-Place by Harold Frederic: glance and talk, from a sober mean of amiable weariness.
Thorpe knew his extraordinary story--that of a poor tutor,
earning his living in ignorance of the fact that he had a
birthright of any sort, who had been miraculously translated
into the heir, not only to an ancient title but to vast
collateral wealth. He had been born and reared in France,
and it was there that the heralds of this stupendous change
in his affairs had found him out. There was a good deal
more to the story, including numerous unsavoury legends
about people now many years dead, and it was impossible
to observe the young Duke and not seem to perceive signs
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