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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: shapes than any other known creature,--being sometimes champagne
and partridges, and again cake and currant wine,--through each
disguise you can always identify the same calf. The girl from
Bear Creek met it at every turn.
The Bannetts at Hoosic Falls offered a large specimen to Molly--a
dinner (perhaps I should say a banquet) of twenty-four. And Sam
Bannett of course took her to drive more than once.
"I want to see the Hoosic Bridge," she would say. And when they
reached that well-remembered point, "How lovely it is!" she
exclaimed. And as she gazed at the view up and down the valley,
she would grow pensive. "How natural the church looks," she
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