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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: "But even apart from that? Wouldn't the woman, for example,
be very bad-natured if she didn't like to live with
her husband; merely"--her voice undulated, and he guessed
things--"merely because she had a personal feeling against it--
a physical objection--a fastidiousness, or whatever it may
be called--although she might respect and be grateful to him?
I am merely putting a case. Ought she to try to overcome
her pruderies?"
Jude threw a troubled look at her. He said, looking away:
"It would be just one of those cases in which my experiences
go contrary to my dogmas. Speaking as an order-loving man--
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