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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: be steady; there lurked in this brain-process which was going on
beneath my reason a threat worse than the childish apprehensions
it created. I reminded myself that I was a man grown, twenty-five
years old, and that I must not merely seem like one, but feel
like one. "You're not afraid of the dark, I suppose?" This I
uttered aloud, unwittingly.
"What's that?"
I started; but it was only the Virginian behind me. "Oh, nothing.
The air is getting colder up here."
I had presently a great relief. We came to a place where again
this trail mounted so abruptly that we once more got off to lead
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