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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: no chance of reasoning with him, because, to be frank, she had no
reasons. She had only instinct - instinct and a great tenderness toward
suffering. No, obviously Harvey must not know until everything was
arranged.
That morning the Methodist Church packed a barrel for the Belgians.
There was a real rite of placing in it Mrs. Augustus Gregory's old
sealskin coat, now a light brown and badly worn, but for years the only
one in the neighborhood. Various familiar articles appeared, to be
thrust into darkness, only to emerge in surroundings never dreamed of
in their better days - the little Howard boy's first trouser suit ; the
clothing of a baby that had never lived; big Joe Hemmingway's dress suit,
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