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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: windpipe - that gets away with 'em - and no marks
left. Wait for me. I'll bring back that dollar, boys."
High up in a tenement-house between Second Ave-
nue and the river lived the Peterses in a back room
so gloomy that the landlord blushed to take the rent
for it. Mrs. Peters worked at sundry times, doing
odd jobs of scrubbing and washing. Mr. Peters had
a pure, unbroken record of five years without having
earned a penny. And yet they clung together, shar-
ing each other's hatred and misery, being creatures
of habit. Of habit, the power that keeps the earth
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