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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Dream Life and Real Life by Olive Schreiner: to him,--but I did what I could." She stood looking passively into the
fire.
"And they say she is quite a child, only eighteen. They say he only saw
her three times before he proposed to her. Do you think it is true?"
"Yes, it is quite true."
"He can't love her. They say he's only marrying her for her rank and her
money."
The woman turned quickly.
"What right have you to say that? No one but I know him. What need has he
of any one's rank or wealth? He is greater than them all! Older women may
have failed him; he has needed to turn to her beautiful, fresh, young life
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