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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain: when it would be his humiliating privilege to rise with Mary and
finish his plea, which he was intending to word thus: ". . . for
until now we have never done any wrong thing, but have gone our
humble way unreproached. We are very poor, we are old, and, have no
chick nor child to help us; we were sorely tempted, and we fell. It
was my purpose when I got up before to make confession and beg that
my name might not be read out in this public place, for it seemed to
us that we could not bear it; but I was prevented. It was just; it
was our place to suffer with the rest. It has been hard for us. It
is the first time we have ever heard our name fall from any one's
lips--sullied. Be merciful--for the sake or the better days; make
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