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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: had been
given him, and he had made them twenty. His reward would be
proportionate.
He was glad that his companions were going to find fit dwellings
prepared for them; but he thought also with a certain pleasure of
the surprise that some of them would feel when they saw
his appointed mansion.
So they came to the summit of the moorland and looked over into
the world beyond. It was a vast, green plain, softly rounded
like
a shallow vase, and circled with hills of amethyst. A broad,
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