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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: called the porter, pointed to a leather-covered chair that
stood near his own, and ordered it removed to a lumber-
room at the top of the building. In that chair Georgia
would always sit when she came to the office for him of
afternoons.
As time passed, the Commissioner seemed to grow more
silent, solitary, and reserved. A new phase of mind
developed in him. He could not endure the presence
of a child. Often when a clattering youngster belonging
to one of the clerks would come chattering into the big
business-room adjoining his little apartment, the Com-
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