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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: great human desire to be useful in her own small way - this was a new type
to him. What a sporting chance this frail bit of a girl was taking! And
he noticed now something that had escaped him before - a dauntlessness,
a courage of the spirit rather than of the body, that was in the very
poise of her head.
"I'm not afraid about the language," she was saying. "I have a phrase
book. And a hungry man, maybe sick or wounded, can understand a bowl of
soup in any language, I should think. And I can cook!"
It was a perplexed and thoughtful Mr. Travers who sipped his
Scotch-and-soda in the smoking room before retiring, lie took the problem
to bed with him and woke up in the night saying: "Twenty pounds!
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