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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: persuaded that only one person was there.
'Some thief or ruffian maybe,' said the locksmith. 'Give me the
light.'
'No, no,' she returned hastily. 'Such visitors have never come to
this poor dwelling. Do you stay here. You're within call, at the
worst. I would rather go myself--alone.'
'Why?' said the locksmith, unwillingly relinquishing the candle he
had caught up from the table.
'Because--I don't know why--because the wish is so strong upon me,'
she rejoined. 'There again--do not detain me, I beg of you!'
Gabriel looked at her, in great surprise to see one who was usually
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