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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Touchstone by Edith Wharton: "Of course--I see that. And I see your considerateness in putting
its advantages negatively."
"Negatively?"
"In dwelling simply on what the going will take you from, not on
what it will bring you to. It means a lot to a woman, of course,
to get away from a life like this." He summed up in a disparaging
glance the background of indigent furniture. "The question is how
you'll like coming back to it."
She seemed to accept the full consequences of his thought. "I
only know I don't like leaving it."
He flung back sombrely, "You don't even put it conditionally
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