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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: fellow's hat - and turned to go back to my car. Two or three members
of the train crew, including the conductor, were standing in the
shadow talking. And at that moment, from a farm-house near came the
swift clang of the breakfast bell, calling in the hands from barn
and pasture. I turned back to the girl.
"We may be here for an hour," I said, "and there is no buffet car
on. If I remember my youth, that bell means ham and eggs and
country butter and coffee. If you care to run the risk - "
"I am not hungry," she said, "but perhaps a cup of coffee - dear me,
I believe I am hungry," she finished. "Only - " She glanced back
of her.
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