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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: sheaf of cardinal flowers on the table, and their petals were
drooping, as if reluctant to look on him. Scheffer's Christus
Consolator was upon the walls, and the benign figure seemed to
spread wider its arms of mercy, to take in a few sad hearts
more.
Hope bore Emilia into the light and purity and warmth, while
Malbone was shut out into the darkness and the chill. The only
two things to which he clung on earth, the two women between
whom his unsteady heart had vibrated, and both whose lives had
been tortured by its vacillation, went away from his sight
together, the one victim bearing the other victim in her arms.
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