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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: show you'll ever get to give me education. Won't yu' please try
that EMMA book now, ma'am? Listening to you will be different."
This was said with softness and humility.
Uncertain--as his gravity often left her--precisely what he meant
by what he said, Molly proceeded with EMMA, slackly at first, but
soon with the enthusiasm that Miss Austen invariably gave her.
She held the volume and read away at it, commenting briefly, and
then, finishing a chapter of the sprightly classic, found her
pupil slumbering peacefully. There was no uncertainty about that.
"You couldn't be doing a healthier thing for him, deary," said
Mrs. Taylor. "If it gets to make him wakeful, try something
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