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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: Adams, looking like vast black insects that have crawled forth
to die.
Here our young people spent the day; some sketched, some played
croquet, some bathed in rocky inlets where the kingfisher
screamed above them, some rowed to little craggy isles for wild
roses, some fished, and then were taught by the boatmen to cook
their fish in novel island ways. The morning grew more and more
cloudless, and then in the afternoon a fog came and went again,
marching by with its white armies, soon met and annihilated by
a rainbow.
The conversation that day was very gay and incoherent,--little
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