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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: Venetian decanter and Melachrinos from a chased silver box. The
farouche element faded out of his speech; his ideas remained as
fresh and as simple as ever, but he gave them a form, bless me! that
might have been used at the Club. He worked as hard as ever, but
more variously; he tried his hand at several new things. He said he
was feeling about for something that would really make his
reputation.
In spite of all this his little measure of success made him more
contemptuous than before of its scene and its elements. He declared
that he had a poorer idea than ever of society now that he saw the
pattern from the smart side. That his convictions on this head
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