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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Voice of the City by O. Henry: with the heart's blood of some one else. You have
to be a cad before you can be an artist. Well, I am
for old Alabam and the Major's store. Have you
got a light, Old Hoss?"
I went with Pettit to the depot and died hard.
"Shakespeare's sonnets?" I blurted, making a last
stand. "How about him?"
"A cad," said Pettit. "They give it to you, and
you sell it -- love, you know. I'd rather sell ploughs
for father."
"But," I protested, " you are reversing the de-
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