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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: comely enough creature, and soft and modest, but, if
signs went for anything, she didn't know as much as a
lady's watch. I said:
"My dear, have you been questioned as to particu-
lars?"
She said she hadn't.
"Well, I didn't expect you had, but I thought I
would ask, to make sure; it's the way I've been raised.
Now you mustn't take it unkindly if I remind you that
as we don't know you, we must go a little slow. You
may be all right, of course, and we'll hope that you
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