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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Garden Party by Katherine Mansfield: I do want a donkey-ride!" You see, I had to say it, and I thought they
wouldn't laugh at me if they knew I was only dreaming. Artful--wasn't it?
Just what a silly child would think...
...No, madam, never now. Of course, I did think of it at one time. But it
wasn't to be. He had a little flower-shop just down the road and across
from where we was living. Funny--wasn't it? And me such a one for
flowers. We were having a lot of company at the time, and I was in and out
of the shop more often than not, as the saying is. And Harry and I (his
name was Harry) got to quarrelling about how things ought to be arranged--
and that began it. Flowers! you wouldn't believe it, madam, the flowers he
used to bring me. He'd stop at nothing. It was lilies-of-the-valley more
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