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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: and passing on. She too.
That evening, Christmas eve, she told Wallie she would not marry
him. Told him very gently, and just after an attempt of his to
embrace her. She would not let him do it.
"I don't know what's come over you," he said morosely. "But I'll
let you alone, if that's the way you feel."
"I'm sorry, Wallie. It - it makes me shiver."
In a way he was prepared for it but nevertheless he begged for
time, for a less unequivocal rejection. But he found her, for the
first time, impatient with his pleadings.
"I don't want to go over and over it, Wallie. I'll take the blame.
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