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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne: strike the opposite precipice. The family held their breath,
because they knew the sound, and their guest held his by
instinct.
"The old mountain has thrown a stone at us, for fear we should
forget him," said the landlord, recovering himself. "He sometimes
nods his head and threatens to come down; but we are old
neighbors, and agree together pretty well upon the whole. Besides
we have a sure place of refuge hard by if he should be coming in
good earnest."
Let us now suppose the stranger to have finished his supper of
bear's meat; and, by his natural felicity of manner, to have
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