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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: the foundations to blow us up, do you not think we should know
what he meant, even though he never spoke a word? He would be
very wrong in behaving so, of course: but one thing would be
certain,--that he did not intend us to live in his house any
longer if he could help it; and was giving us, in a very rough
fashion, notice to quit. And so it seems to me that these poor
Spanish Americans have received from the Landlord of all
landlords, who can do no wrong, such a notice to quit as perhaps
no people ever had before; which says to them in unmistakable
words, "You must leave this country: or perish." And I believe
that that message, like all Lady Why's messages, is at heart a
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