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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: 'Come, Elfie, let's make it up and be friends.'
'Say you would save me, then, and let him drown.'
'I would save you--and him too.'
'And let him drown. Come, or you don't love me!' she teasingly
went on.
'And let him drown,' he ejaculated despairingly.
'There; now I am yours!' she said, and a woman's flush of triumph
lit her eyes.
'Only one earring, miss, as I'm alive,' said Unity on their
entering the hall.
With a face expressive of wretched misgiving, Elfride's hand flew
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