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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: and he crossed the creek.
Many weeks before, in the early spring, Balaam had borrowed two
horses from the Judge, promising to return them at once. But the
Judge, of course, wrote very civilly. He hoped that "this dunning
reminder" might be excused. As Balaam read the reminder, he
wished that he had sent the horses before. The Judge was a
greater man than he in the Territory. Balaam could not but excuse
the "dunning reminder,"--but he was ready to be disagreeable to
somebody at once.
"Well," he said, musing aloud in his annoyance, "Judge Henry
wants them by the 30th. Well, this is the 24th, and time enough
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