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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Tom tightened his arm around her. "You pre-
cious little soul," he said. "I am satisfied. I know
you have some good reason for not wanting to speak,
but I am plaguey glad you spoke to me, for I should
have been pretty well cast down if you hadn't, and
to-morrow I have to go away."
Annie leaned toward him. "Go away!"
"Yes; I have to go to California about that con-
founded Ames will case. And I don't know exactly
where, on the Pacific coast, the parties I have to
interview may be, and I may have to be away weeks,
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