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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: us, perplexity and alarm fighting in her face.
With twitching hands the porter attempted to draw the curtains
together. Then in a paralysis of shock, he collapsed on the edge
of my berth and sat there swaying. In my excitement I shook him.
"For Heaven's sake, keep your nerve, man," I said bruskly. "You'll
have every woman in the car in hysterics. And if you do, you'll
wish you could change places with the man in there." He rolled his
eyes.
A man near, who had been reading last night's paper, dropped it
quickly and tiptoed toward us. He peered between the partly open
curtains, closed them quietly and went back, ostentatiously solemn,
The Man in Lower Ten |
