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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: for grandmother's kitchen, and seemed loath to leave us.
But at last they went, without warning. Those two fellows
had been faithful to us through sun and storm, had given us
things that cannot be bought in any market in the world.
With me they had been like older brothers; had restrained their
speech and manners out of care for me, and given me so much
good comradeship. Now they got on the westbound train one morning,
in their Sunday clothes, with their oilcloth valises--and I
never saw them again. Months afterward we got a card from Otto,
saying that Jake had been down with mountain fever, but now they
were both working in the Yankee Girl Mine, and were doing well.
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