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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: frankness. "Unless mamma wishes me to conclude my weed on the
Avenue. It would be fun, though. Fancy the dismay of the
Frenchmen and the dowagers!"
"And old Lambert," said one of the other girls, delightedly.
"Yes," said Blanche. "The elderly party from the rural
districts, who talks to us about the domestic virtues of the
wife of his youth."
"Thinks women should cruise with a broom at their mast-heads,
like Admiral somebody in England," said another damsel, who was
rolling a cigarette for a midshipman.
"You see we do not follow the English style," said the smooth
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