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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lin McLean by Owen Wister: enjoyed them thinking of Tommy. Perhaps manhood was not quite established
in my own soul at that time--and perhaps that is the reason why it is the
only time I have ever known which I would live over again, those years
when people said, "You are old enough to know better"--and one didn't
care!
Salmon, apricots, eggs, we dealt with them all properly, and I had some
cigars. It was now that the news came back into my head.
"What do you think of--" I began, and stopped.
I spoke out of a long silence, the slack, luxurious silence of digestion.
I got no answer, naturally, from the torpid Lin, and then it occurred to
me that he would have asked me what I thought, long before this, had he
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