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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: all this. It swept him away; this revival of passion was
irresistible. When her pent-up feeling was once uttered, she
turned to his love as a fancied salvation. It was a terrible
remedy. She had never looked more beautiful, and yet she seemed
to have grown old at once; her very caresses appeared to burn.
She lingered and lingered, and still he kept her there; and
when it was no longer possible for her to go without disturbing
the house, he led her to a secret spiral stairway, which went
from attic to cellar of that stately old mansion, and which
opened by one or more doors on each landing, as his keen eye
had found out. Descending this, he went forth with her into the
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