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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: his eyes and covered his face with his hands, letting two pictures
stand out clear before his mental vision.
He saw the little anxious group around the carriage in front of the
Thorne mansion. He saw the pale, frail woman leaning back on the
cushions, and the husband bending over her in tender care. And
then he saw Johann Knoll in his cell, a man with little manhood left
in him, a man sunk to the level of the brutes, a man who had already
committed one crime against society, and who could never rise to the
mental or spiritual standard of even the most mediocre of decent
citizens.
If Herbert Thorne were to suffer the just punishment for his deed
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