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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Contrast by Royall Tyler: an't you going to be married to a young man of great
fortune; an't you going to have the quit-rent of twenty
miles square?
MARIA
One-hundredth part of the land, and a lease for life
of the heart of a man I could love, would satisfy me.
VAN ROUGH
Pho, pho, pho! child; nonsense, downright non-
sense, child. This comes of your reading your story-
books; your Charles Grandisons, your Sentimental
Journals, and your Robinson Crusoes, and such other
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