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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Elizabeth and her German Garden by Marie Annette Beauchamp: as you do in England, you would be put down as a person who only has
just enough to last <218> that length of time, and would be an object
of general contempt."
"But I should be a clean object," cried Minora, "and my house
would not be full of accumulated dirt."
We said nothing--there was nothing to be said.
"It must be a happy land, that England of yours,"
Irais remarked after a while with a sigh--a beatific vision no
doubt presenting itself to her mind of a land full of washerwomen
and agile gentlemen darting at door-handles.
"It is a clean land, at any rate," replied Minora.
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