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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence: Connie and Hilda ruled out the prince at once. The Guthries were more
or less their own sort, substantial, hut boring: and the girls wanted
husbands. The chaplain was not a had fellow, but too deferential. Sir
Alexander, after his slight stroke, had a terrible heaviness his
joviality, but he was still thrilled at the presence of so many
handsome young women. Lady Cooper was a quiet, catty person who had a
thin time of it, poor thing, and who watched every other woman with a
cold watchfulness that had become her second nature, and who said cold,
nasty little things which showed what an utterly low opinion she had of
all human nature. She was also quite venomously overbearing with the
servants, Connie found: but in a quiet way. And she skilfully behaved
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