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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: characteristic is timid obsequiousness to tradition."
Arabella was quizzing Sue with more regard of how she was speaking than of
what she was saying. "How odd to hear a woman selling cakes talk like that!"
she said. "Why don't you go back to school-keeping?"
She shook her head. "They won't have me."
"Because of the divorce, I suppose?"
"That and other things. And there is no reason to wish it.
We gave up all ambition, and were never so happy in our lives till
his illness came."
"Where are you living?"
"I don't care to say."
Jude the Obscure | 
