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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane: dis is how she served me! She went teh deh devil deh first chance
she got! May Gawd forgive her."
When arrested for drunkenness she used the story of her
daughter's downfall with telling effect upon the police justices.
Finally one of them said to her, peering down over his spectacles:
"Mary, the records of this and other courts show that you are the
mother of forty-two daughters who have been ruined. The case
is unparalleled in the annals of this court, and this court
thinks--"
The mother went through life shedding large tears of sorrow.
Her red face was a picture of agony.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets | 
