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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: sullen hate for those above them in the social scale, the "stiffs"
regarded him with distrust from the start.
In the beginning he accepted their sneers with a degree of
philosophy. His physical condition was poor. At night he ached
intolerably, collapsing into his wooden bunk to sleep the
dreamless sleep of utter exhaustion. There were times when he
felt that it would be better to return at once to Norada and
surrender, for that he must do so eventually he never doubted.
It was as well perhaps that he had no time for brooding, but he
gained sleep at the cost of superhuman exertion all day.
A feeling of unreality began to obsess him, so that at times he
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