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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: said of the living was fresh in her memory, and as she recalled
his very words, it was impossible not to feel that there was gross
duplicity on one side or the other; and, for a few moments, she
flattered herself that her wishes did not err. But when she read
and re-read with the closest attention, the particulars
immediately following of Wickham's resigning all pretensions to
the living, of his receiving in lieu so considerable a sum as three
thousand pounds, again was she forced to hesitate. She put
down the letter, weighed every circumstance with what she
meant to be impartiality-- deliberated on the probability of each
statement-- but with little success. On both sides it was only
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