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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: I am only a feeler, not a reasoner."
"Now," said Gillingham, "let us take it quietly, and have something
to drink over it." He went under the stairs, and produced
a bottle of cider-wine, of which they drank a rummer each.
"I think you are rafted, and not yourself," he continued.
"Do go back and make up your mind to put up with a few whims.
But keep her. I hear on all sides that she's a charming
young thing."
"Ah yes! That's the bitterness of it! Well, I won't stay.
I have a long walk before me."
Gillingham accompanied his friend a mile on his way, and at parting
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