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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: years ago. The time passed by--a year, two years; and then they began to turn
against you. They are not to be blamed. You spoke no word. They felt that you
were destroying my life. It is four years, now, and you have never once
mentioned marriage to them. What were they to think? What they have thought,
that you were destroying my life."
As she talked, she continued to pass her fingers caressingly through his hair,
sorrowful for the pain that she was inflicting.
"They did like you at first. Who can help liking you? You seem to draw
affection from all living things, as the trees draw the moisture from the
ground. It comes to you as it were your birthright. Aunt Mildred and Uncle
Robert thought there was nobody like you. The sun rose and set in you. They
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