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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: He looked at his wife: her beauty was extraordinary, but it seemed
to him the beauty of a smooth sea along an unlit coast. She
frightened him.
He sat late that night in his study. He heard the parlor-maid
lock the front door; then his wife went upstairs and the lights
were put out. His brain was like some great empty hall with an
echo in it; one thought reverberated endlessly. . . . At length
he drew his chair to the table and began to write. He addressed
an envelope and then slowly re-read what he had written.
"MY DEAR FLAMEL"
"Many apologies for not sending you sooner the enclosed check,
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