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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Riverman by Stewart Edward White: and then took his leave.
"How do you like him?" asked Orde, when he had gone.
"He looks like a very shrewd man," replied Carroll, picking her
words for fear of saying the wrong thing.
Orde laughed.
"You don't like him," he stated.
"I don't dislike him," said Carroll. "I've not a thing against him.
But we could never be in the slightest degree sympathetic. He and I
don't--don't--"
"Don't jibe," Orde finished for her. "I didn't much think you
would. Joe never was much of a society bug." It was on the tip of
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