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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: she had now said in the moment of her own, I could have
borne it. She might have shamed me then, and I might
have taken the shame to myself and forgiven her. But,
as it was, I stood there in the gathering dusk, between
the darkening hedges, baffled, tricked, defeated! And
by a woman! She had pitted her wits against mine, her
woman's will against my experience, and she had come off
the victor. And then she had reviled me! As I took it
all in, and began to comprehend also the more remote
results, and how completely her move had made further
progress on my part impossible, I hated her. She had
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