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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: Two ponderous policemen Were conducting between
them a woman dressed as if for the stage, in a short, white,
satiny skirt reaching to the knees, pink stockings, and a
sort of sleeveless bodice bright with relucent, armour-like
scales. Upon her curly, light hair was perched, at a
rollicking angle, a shining tin helmet. The costume was
to be instantly recognized as one of those amazing con-
ceptions to which competition has harried the inventors
of the spectacular ballet. One of the officers bore a long
cloak upon his axm, which, doubtless, had been intended
to veil the I candid attractions of their effulgent prisoner,
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