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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: burned the house in which were your father's title-deeds?"
Edward, who, it appeared, had fought through the whole Civil War, and was
in consequence perfectly good-humored and peaceable in his feelings upon
that subject, replied hastily and amiably: "Oh, yes, yes! Why, I believe
it was!"
But this availed nothing; Juno bent her great height forward, and
addressed Mrs. Braintree. "This is the first time I have been told
Southerners were vandals."
"You will never be able to say that again!" replied Mrs. Braintree.
After the bell and Daphne had stopped, the invaluable Briton addressed a
genial generalization to us all: "I often think how truly awful your war
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