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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: kind, helpful, courteous, and watchful. But he had no sentiment.
He did not see Dorothy's charms or feel Helen's fascination. And
their efforts to captivate him were now so obvious that Mrs. Beck
taunted them, and Edith smiled knowingly, and Bobby and Boyd made
playful remarks. All of which cut Helen's pride and hurt
Dorothy's vanity. They essayed open conquest of Stewart.
So it came about that Madeline unconsciously admitted the cowboy
to a place in her mind never occupied by any other. The instant
it occurred to her why he was proof against the wiles of the
other women she drove that amazing and strangely disturbing
thought from her. Nevertheless, as she was human, she could not
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