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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: the passages I've marked will make it just the right length,"
he said, in a businesslike tone.
Jo hardly knew her own MS again, so crumpled and underscored
were its pages and paragraphs, but feeling as a tender
patent might on being asked to cut off her baby's legs in
order that it might fit into a new cradle, she looked at the
marked passages and was surprised to find that all the moral
reflections--which she had carefully put in as ballast for
much romance--had been stricken out.
"But, Sir, I thought every story should have some sort of
a moral, so I took care to have a few of my sinners repent."
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