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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf: a little red light burnt high up in its blackness.
"Miss Vinrace, is it?" said Hewet, peering at her. "You were
dancing with Hirst?"
"He's made me furious!" she cried vehemently. "No one's any right
to be insolent!"
"Insolent?" Hewet repeated, taking his cigar from his mouth
in surprise. "Hirst--insolent?"
"It's insolent to--" said Rachel, and stopped. She did not know
exactly why she had been made so angry. With a great effort she
pulled herself together.
"Oh, well," she added, the vision of Helen and her mockery before her,
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