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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: within. Some quarter of an hour before the shaking of hands took
place, the hoofs of a horse were heard in the meeting-house yard--
the noise of a smart trot on the turf, suddenly arrested.
The boys pricked up their ears at this unusual sound, and stole
glances at each other when they imagined themselves unseen by the
awful faces in the gallery. Presently those nearest the door saw
a broader shadow fall over those flickering upon the stone. A red
face appeared for a moment, and was then drawn back out of sight.
The shadow advanced and receded, in a state of peculiar
restlessness. Sometimes the end of a riding-whip was visible,
sometimes the corner of a coarse gray coat. The boys who noticed
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