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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: Bing's production of The Silver Cord. She is to have a better part
next season."
"Take me to see her," said North.
Miss Ashton lived with her mother in a small hotel. They were out of
the West, and had a little money that bridged the seasons. As press-
agent of Binkley & Bing I had tried to keep her before the public. As
Robert James Vandiver I had hoped to withdraw her; for if ever one was
made to keep company with said Vandiver and smell the salt breeze on
the south shore of Long Island and listen to the ducks quack in the
watches of the night, it was the Ashton set forth above.
But she had a soul above ducks--above nightingales; aye, even above
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