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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: so good to me when I entered college?"
The father nodded. He remembered very well indeed the annoying
incidents
of his son's first escapade, and how Rollins had stood by him and
helped to
avoid a public disgrace, and how a close friendship had grown
between
the two boys, so different in their fortunes.
"Yes," he said, "I remember him. He was a promising young man.
Has he succeeded?"
"Not exactly--that is not yet. His business has been going
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