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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: in low tones. "I speak for others as well as myself,
mind you--we find that you are a bore."
Theron's stiffened countenance remained immovable.
He continued to stare unblinkingly up into her eyes.
"We were disposed to like you very much when we first
knew you," Celia went on. "You impressed us as an innocent,
simple, genuine young character, full of mother's milk.
It was like the smell of early spring in the country to come
in contact with you. Your honesty of nature, your sincerity
in that absurd religion of yours, your general NAIVETE of
mental and spiritual get-up, all pleased us a great deal.
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