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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain: ness and see what can be done. In all lies there is
wheat among the chaff; I must get at the wheat in this
case: so I sent for the girl and she came. She was a
comely enough creature, and soft and modest, but, if
signs went for anything, she didn't know as much as a
lady's watch. I said:
"My dear, have you been questioned as to particu-
lars?"
She said she hadn't.
"Well, I didn't expect you had, but I thought I
would ask, to make sure; it's the way I've been raised.
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