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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: taking provisions for our journey, something more palatable than
what food we should find along the road. It was well thought of,
and I bought quite a parcel of dainties, feeling that he would
despise both them and me. And thus I took my seat beside him,
wondering what we should manage to talk about for two hundred and
sixty-three miles.
Farewell in those days was not said in Cattle Land. Acquaintances
watched our departure with a nod or with nothing, and the nearest
approach to "Good-by" was the proprietor's "So-long." But I
caught sight of one farewell given without words.
As we drove by the eating-house, the shade of a side window was
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