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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Blix by Frank Norris:
They knew it upon the instant by a brisk opening and shutting of
the street door, and by a sudden alertness on the part of Captain
Jack, which he immediately followed by a quite inexplicable move.
The street door in the outside room had hardly closed before his
hand shot to his coat lapel and tore out the two marguerites.
The action was instinctive; Blix knew it for such immediately.
The retired captain had not premeditated it. He had not seen the
face of the newcomer. She had not time to come into the back
room, or even to close the street door. But the instant that the
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