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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: win, and the stake is a life--perhaps more than one--we shall see."
Then he went on in a conversational tone, such as he had used when
he spoke of the coming to the farm of Edgar Caswall: "When Mr.
Caswall came in, the negro went a short distance away and there
remained. It gave me the idea that he expected to be called, and
intended to remain in sight, or within hail. Then Mimi got another
cup and made fresh tea, and we all went on together."
"Was there anything uncommon--were you all quite friendly?" asked
Sir Nathaniel quietly.
"Quite friendly. There was nothing that I could notice out of the
common--except," he went on, with a slight hardening of the voice,
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