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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: helping other people. I don't think now it is terrible to be a woman; it
is lovely.
"I hope you are enjoying this beautiful spring weather.
"Yours, always full of gratitude and love,
"E--."
The woman read the letter: then she stood up and walked towards the fire.
She did not re-read it, but stood with it open in her hand, looking down
into the blaze. Her lips were drawn in at the corners. Presently she tore
the letter up slowly, and watched the bits floating down one by one into
the grate. Then she went back to her desk, and began to write, with her
mouth still drawn in at the corners. After a while she laid her arm on the
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