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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Finished by H. Rider Haggard: against a brick wall, that there was something on her mind which
she could not or would not let out.
"Yes, and if you want to know, I will tell you what it is. Rodd
has got a hold over Marnham of a sort that would bring him
somewhere near the gallows. As the price of his silence Marnham
has promised him his daughter. The daughter knows that her
father is in this man's power, though I think she does not know
in what way, and being a good girl--"
"An angel you mean--do call her by her right name, especially in
a place where angels are so much wanted."
"Well, an angel if you like--she has promised on her part to
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