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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: holidays. I assured her that my employments were not at all
oppressive; that I was well; or, if there was anything amiss, it
would be gone as soon as the trying months of spring were over:
when summer came I should be as strong and hearty as she could wish
to see me: but inwardly her observation startled me. I knew my
strength was declining, my appetite had failed, and I was grown
listless and desponding; - and if, indeed, he could never care for
me, and I could never see him more - if I was forbidden to minister
to his happiness - forbidden, for ever, to taste the joys of love,
to bless, and to be blessed - then, life must be a burden, and if
my heavenly Father would call me away, I should be glad to rest.
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