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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: It runs in our family rather. His cousin Sue is just the same--
so I've heard; but I have not seen the child for years, though she
was born in this place, within these four walls, as it happened.
My niece and her husband, after they were married, didn' get a house
of their own for some year or more; and then they only had one till--
Well, I won't go into that. Jude, my child, don't you ever marry.
'Tisn't for the Fawleys to take that step any more. She, their only one,
was like a child o' my own, Belinda, till the split come!
Ah, that a little maid should know such changes!"
Jude, finding the general attention again centering on himself,
went out to the bakehouse, where he ate the cake provided
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