The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: from enjoyment of these things. Never again so long as he lived
could he be natural. His mind was clouded. His eye and ear
henceforth must register impressions of nature, but the joy of
them had fled.
Still, as he sat there with a foreboding of more and darker
work ahead of him there was yet a strange sweetness left to
him, and it lay in thought of Jennie. The pressure of her cold
little hands lingered in his. He did not think of her as a
woman, and he did not analyze his feelings. He just had vague,
dreamy thoughts and imaginations that were interspersed in the
constant and stern revolving of plans to save her.
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