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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: generally don't know that. So I took to watching the Judge's
Eastern visitors. There was that Mr. Ogden especially, from New
Yawk--the gentleman that was there the time when I had to sit up
all night with the missionary, yu' know. His clothes pleased me
best of all. Fit him so well, and nothing flash. I got my ideas,
and when I knew I was going to marry you, I sent my measure
East--and I and the tailor are old enemies now."
Bennington probably was disappointed. To see get out of the train
merely a tall man with a usual straw hat, and Scotch homespun
suit of a rather better cut than most in Bennington--this was
dull. And his conversation--when he indulged in any--seemed fit
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