The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Alexander's Bridge by Willa Cather: Bartley announced suddenly. "I'll cut
off a day in Liverpool. I haven't felt
so jolly this long while."
Hilda looked up with a smile which she
tried not to make too glad. "I think people
were meant to be happy, a little," she said.
They had lunch at Richmond and then walked
to Twickenham, where they had sent the carriage.
They drove back, with a glorious sunset behind them,
toward the distant gold-washed city.
It was one of those rare afternoons
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