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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: her in, that she had some difficulty in saving her own
new writing-desk from being thrown out into the street.
At last, however, the door was closed upon the three females,
and they set off at the sober pace in which the handsome,
highly fed four horses of a gentleman usually perform a
journey of thirty miles: such was the distance of Northanger
from Bath, to be now divided into two equal stages.
Catherine's spirits revived as they drove from the door;
for with Miss Tilney she felt no restraint; and, with the
interest of a road entirely new to her, of an abbey before,
and a curricle behind, she caught the last view of Bath
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