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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: suppressed. Buried deep, the battle between absolute trust and
fear was beginning, a battle which was so rapidly to mature her.
Nina, shrewd and suspicious, sensed something of nervous strain
in her when she came in, later that day, to borrow a hat.
"Look here, Elizabeth," she began, "I want to talk to you. Are
you going to live in this - this hole all your life?"
"Hole nothing," Elizabeth said, hotly. "Really, Nina, I do think
you might be more careful of what you say."
"Oh, it's a dear old hole," Nina said negligently. "But hole it
is, nevertheless. Why in the world mother don't manage her servants
- but no matter about that now. Elizabeth, there's a lot of talk
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