The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lone Star Ranger by Zane Grey: night was Miss Longstreth. He could not help thinking of
her--how strangely the meeting with her had affected him. It
made him remember that long-past time when girls had been a
part of his life. What a sad and dark and endless void lay
between that past and the present! He had no right even to
dream of a beautiful woman like Ray Longstreth. That
conviction, however, did not dispel her; indeed, it seemed
perversely to make her grow more fascinating. Duane grew
conscious of a strange, unaccountable hunger, a something that
was like a pang in his breast.
Next day he lounged about the inn. He did not make any
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