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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: hesitation through the shade, as a man goes on, night or day,
in a district over which he has played as a boy. He had walked
altogether about four and a half miles
Where Stour receives her strength,
From six cleere fountains fed, [2]
when he crossed a tributary of the Stour, and reached Leddenton--
a little town of three or four thousand inhabitants--
where he went on to the boys' school, and knocked at the door
of the master's residence.
[1] William Barnes. [2] Drayton.
A boy pupil-teacher opened it, and to Phillotson's inquiry
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