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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: only with coquelicot ribbons instead of green; I quite
longed for it. But, my dearest Catherine, what have you
been doing with yourself all this morning? Have you gone
on with Udolpho?"
"Yes, I have been reading it ever since I woke;
and I am got to the black veil."
"Are you, indeed? How delightful! Oh! I would not
tell you what is behind the black veil for the world!
Are not you wild to know?"
"Oh! Yes, quite; what can it be? But do not tell
me--I would not be told upon any account. I know it must
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