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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Copy-Cat & Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman: Whatever it was, it was dominant.
"Do you have to work hard?" he asked.
"Pretty hard, I guess. I expect to."
"And you don't get any pay?"
"That's all right; I don't expect to get any,"
said she, and there was bitterness in her voice.
In spite of her stoutness she was not as strong as
the man. She was not at all strong, and, moreover,
the constant presence of a sense of injury at the
hands of life filled her very soul with a subtle poison,
to her weakening vitality. She was a child hurt and
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