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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: "I thought perhaps you wanted to ask me something."
"Why?"
"Your following me," she explained, the corners of her mouth
smiling. "I had turned away--"
"I just wanted to talk to you," said Orde.
"And you always get what you want," she repeated. "Well?" she
conceded, with a shrug of mock resignation. But the four other men
here cut in with a demand.
"Music!" they clamoured. "We want music!"
With a nod, Miss Bishop turned to the piano, sweeping aside her
white draperies as she sat. She struck a few soft chords, and then,
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