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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: now that the Mayor of Casterbridge is not so thriving in his
mind as it seems he might be from the state of his pocket."
"I do. And I'm sorry for ye!" said Farfrae.
When he was gone Henchard copied the letter, and, enclosing
a cheque, took it to the post-office, from which he walked
back thoughtfully.
"Can it be that it will go off so easily!" he said. "Poor
thing--God knows! Now then, to make amends to Susan!"
13.
The cottage which Michael Henchard hired for his wife Susan
under her name of Newson--in pursuance of their plan--was in
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