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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: He only said, "Um," in a kind of a disappointed way,
and didn't take no more intrust. So I went on.
I says:
"Well, then, as I was a-saying--"
"That'll do, you needn't go no furder." It was Aunt Sally.
She was boring right into me with her eyes, and very indignant.
"Huck Finn," she says, "how'd them men come to talk about
going a-black-berrying in September--in THIS region?"
I see I had slipped up, and I couldn't say a word.
She waited, still a-gazing at me, then she says:
"And how'd they come to strike that idiot idea of going
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