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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: I have already said that of this wedding no word was in the papers. Kings
Port by the war lost all material things, but not the others, among which
precious privacy remains to her; and, O Kings Port, may you never lose
your grasp of that treasure! May you never know the land where the
reporter blooms, where if any joy or grief befall you, the public press
rings your doorbell and demands the particulars, and if you deny it the
particulars, it makes them up and says something scurrilous about you
into the bargain. Therefore nothing was printed, morning or evening,
about John and Eliza. Nor was the wedding service held in church to the
accompaniment of nodding bonnets and gaping stragglers. No eye not tender
with regard and emotion looked on while John took Eliza to his wedded
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