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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy: The moon will rise in a few minutes."
Thomasin went back to the porch. "Is he coming in?"
said Clym, who had been waiting where she had left him.
"He would rather not tonight," she said, and then passed
by him into the house; whereupon Clym too retired to his
own rooms.
When Clym was gone Thomasin crept upstairs in the dark, and,
just listening by the cot, to assure herself that the child
was asleep, she went to the window, gently lifted the corner
of the white curtain, and looked out. Venn was still there.
She watched the growth of the faint radiance appearing
 Return of the Native |