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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In a German Pension by Katherine Mansfield: Said the strange man: "Sorry, too. Have you been living here long?"
"Er--yes--a long time." She began to close the door slowly.
"Well--good-morning, thanks so much. Hope I haven't been a bother."
"Good-morning."
She heard him walk down the passage and then pause--lighting a cigarette.
Yes--a faint scent of delicious cigarette smoke penetrated her room. She
sniffed at it, smiling again. Well, that had been a fascinating interlude!
He looked so amazingly happy: his heavy clothes and big buttoned gloves;
his beautifully brushed hair...and that smile..."Jolly" was the word--just
a well-fed boy with the world for his playground. People like that did one
good--one felt "made over" at the sight of them. SANE they were--so sane
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