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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: devils used to take husbands' forms o' nights, and get poor women into all
sorts of trouble. But I don't know why that should come into my head,
for it is only a tale.... What a wind and rain it is to-night! Well--
don't be in a hurry to alter things, my dear. Think it over."
"No, no! I've screwed my weak soul up to treating him more courteously--
and it must be now--at once--before I break down!"
"I don't think you ought to force your nature. No woman ought
to be expected to."
"It is my duty. I will drink my cup to the dregs!"
Half an hour later when Mrs. Edlin put on her bonnet and shawl to leave,
Sue seemed to be seized with vague terror.
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