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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: deed to glean a peach at midnight from that wintry
city where yet the February snows lay like iron.
She had asked for a peach; she was his bride; in his
pocket the peach was warming in his band that held it
for fear that it might fall out and be lost.
On the way the Kid turned in at an all-night drug
store and said to the spectacled clerk:
"Say, sport, I wish you'd size up this rib of mine
and see if it's broke. I was in a little scrap and
bumped down a flight or two of stairs."
The druggist made an examination.
The Voice of the City | 
