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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: Sam was whistling, an irritating bird call, over and over. She
pursed her red lips and answered him in kind. It was more than
I could endure.
"Sam or no Sam," I said firmly, "I am going to kiss you!"
But Sam's voice came strident through the megaphone. "Be good, you
two," he bellowed, "I've got the binoculars!" And so, under fire,
we walked sedately back to the house. My pulses were throbbing
- the little swish of her dress beside me on the grass was pain
and ecstasy. I had but to put out my hand to touch her, and I
dared not.
Sam, armed with a megaphone and field glasses, bent over the rail
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