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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: took his dinner-basket down into the stockroom in the basement,
that had the long table on trestles, and ate his meal hurriedly,
alone in that cellar of gloom and desolation. Then he went out of doors.
The brightness and the freedom of the streets made him feel adventurous
and happy. But at two o'clock he was back in the corner of the
big room. Soon the work-girls went trooping past, making remarks.
It was the commoner girls who worked upstairs at the heavy tasks
of truss-making and the finishing of artificial limbs. He waited
for Mr. Pappleworth, not knowing what to do, sitting scribbling
on the yellow order-paper. Mr. Pappleworth came at twenty minutes
to three. Then he sat and gossiped with Paul, treating the boy
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