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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Heroes by Charles Kingsley: so he thought no more of them, but drank and bathed in the
clear pool, and then lay down in the shade under a plane-
tree, while the water sang him to sleep, as it tinkled down
from stone to stone.
And when he woke he heard a whispering, and saw the nymphs
peeping at him across the fountain from the dark mouth of a
cave, where they sat on green cushions of moss. And one
said, 'Surely he is not Periphetes;' and another, 'He looks
like no robber, but a fair and gentle youth.'
Then Theseus smiled, and called them, 'Fair nymphs, I am not
Periphetes. He sleeps among the kites and crows; but I have
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