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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: Gibraltar! and anything that happens now will come from the outside,
and not from the inside, won't it, dear?"
"Yes, sweetheart," said Orde.
"Poor mother! I wonder how she'll take it."
"We'll soon know, anyway," replied Orde, a little grimly.
In the hallway of the Bishop house Orde kissed her.
"Be brave, sweetheart," said he, "but remember that now you're my
wife."
She nodded at him gravely and disappeared.
Orde sat in the dim parlour for what seemed to be an interminable
period. Occasionally the sounds of distant voices rose to his ear
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