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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from My Antonia by Willa Cather: I have to promise her I help Ambrosch make the grave tomorrow.'
Grandfather smoothed his beard and looked judicial.
`I don't know whose wish should decide the matter, if not hers.
But if she thinks she will live to see the people of this
country ride over that old man's head, she is mistaken.'
XVI
MR. SHIMERDA LAY DEAD in the barn four days, and on the fifth
they buried him. All day Friday Jelinek was off with Ambrosch
digging the grave, chopping out the frozen earth with old axes.
On Saturday we breakfasted before daylight and got into the wagon
with the coffin. Jake and Jelinek went ahead on horseback to cut
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