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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: gold. Each of the seven-and-forty was beautiful beyond what the
young man could have believed possible, and each was clad in a
garment of silk as white as snow, embroidered with threads of
silver and studded with glistening diamonds. But each sat silent
and motionless--each was a stone as white as alabaster.
Upon the couch in the centre of the apartment reclined a queen
with a crown of gold upon her head. She lay there motionless,
still. She was cold and dead--of stone as white as marble. The
young man approached and looked into her face, and when he looked
his breath became faint and his heart grew soft within him like
wax in a flame of fire.
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