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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Case of The Lamp That Went Out by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: and turned away from the window, for be felt a slow flush rising
to his cheeks. It was another of Muller's peculiarities that he
always felt an inward embarrassment at the lies he was obliged to
tell in his profession.
The butler did not seem to have noticed it however, and appeared
eager to tell of what concerned him in the housekeeper's appearance
and demeanour. "Why, yesterday at dinner time was the first that
we began to notice anything wrong with Mrs. Bernauer. The rest of
us, that is, Lizzie the upstairs girl, the cook and myself. She
began to eat her dinner with a good appetite, then suddenly, when
we got as far as the pudding, she let her fork fall and turned
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