The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: had no ambition unless it were to pass the days pleasantly. If
he ever had any sons they would be like him, only a generation
more toward the inevitable extinction of his race.
Madeline returned to camp in just the mood to make a sharp,
deciding contrast. It happened--fatefully, perhaps--that the
first man she saw was Stewart. He had just ridden into camp, and
as she came up he explained that he had gone down to the ranch
for the important mail about which she had expressed anxiety.
"Down and back in one day!" she exclaimed.
"Yes," he replied. "It wasn't so bad."
"But why did you not send one of the boys, and let him make the
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