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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: spanked than marry you."
A gleam of respect came into the little girl's
wisely regarding blue eyes. She, with the swiftness
of her sex, recognized in forlorn little Johnny the
making of a man. "Oh, well," said she, loftily,
"I never was a telltale, and, anyway, we are not
grown up, and there will be my trousseau to get,
and a lot of other things to do first. I shall go to
Europe before I am married, too, and I might meet
a boy much nicer than you on the steamer."
"Meet him if you want to."
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