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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from One Basket by Edna Ferber: Eva was not one to beat about the bush. She sat forward in her
chair, clutching her bag rather nervously.
"Now, look here, Jo. Stell and I are here for a reason. We're
here to tell you that this thing's going to stop."
"Thing? Stop?"
"You know very well what I mean. You saw me at the milliner's
that day. And night before last, Ethel. We're all disgusted.
If you must go about with people like that, please have some
sense of decency."
Something gathering in Jo's face should have warned her. But he
was slumped down in his chair in such a huddle, and he looked so
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