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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: my notorious helplessness that bid fair to end what relations I
had with the Virginian. For when Judge Henry ascertained that
nothing could prevent me from losing myself, that it was not
uncommon for me to saunter out after breakfast with a gun and in
thirty minutes cease to know north from south, he arranged for my
protection. He detailed an escort for me; and the escort was once
more the trustworthy man! The poor Virginian was taken from his
work and his comrades and set to playing nurse for me. And for a
while this humiliation ate into his untamed soul. It was his
lugubrious lot to accompany me in my rambles, preside over my
blunders, and save me from calamitously passing into the next
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