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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: contrived to do, on I know not what would-be errand, almost every
day. Her uncle and aunt at first looked stiff enough at these
visits, and the latter took care always to make a third in every
conversation; but still Mr. Leigh was a gentleman's son, and it
would not do to be rude to a neighboring squire and a good
customer; and Rose was the rich man's daughter and they poor
cousins, so it would not do either to quarrel with her; and
besides, the pretty maid, half by wilfulness, and half by her sweet
winning tricks, generally contrived to get her own way wheresoever
she went; and she herself had been wise enough to beg her aunt
never to leave them alone,--for she "could not a-bear the sight of
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