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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy: already in carelessness--it is her legal name--so it may as
well be made her usual name--I don't like t'other name at
all for my own flesh and blood. I'll advertise it in the
Casterbridge paper--that's the way they do it. She won't
object."
"No. O no. But--"
"Well, then, I shall do it," he said, peremptorily.
"Surely, if she's willing, you must wish it as much as I?"
"O yes--if she agrees let us do it by all means," she
replied.
Then Mrs. Henchard acted somewhat inconsistently; it might
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