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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: the first time I had ever heard a foreign tongue.
Another lantern came along. A bantering voice called out:
`Hello, are you Mr. Burden's folks? If you are, it's me you're looking for.
I'm Otto Fuchs. I'm Mr. Burden's hired man, and I'm to drive you out.
Hello, Jimmy, ain't you scared to come so far west?'
I looked up with interest at the new face in the lantern-light.
He might have stepped out of the pages of `Jesse James.'
He wore a sombrero hat, with a wide leather band and a bright buckle,
and the ends of his moustache were twisted up stiffly,
like little horns. He looked lively and ferocious, I thought,
and as if he had a history. A long scar ran across one cheek
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