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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates: "Never," said I.
For a full moment she sat gazing into the flames. Then she flung
her cigarette into the grate and jumped to her feet before I had
time to help her.
"Bed-time," she cried. "Mine, at any rate.
"I'll see you to your room," said I, lighting one of the
candles. Then I picked up her grey fur coat and laid it over my
arm.
"Adam, said Eve.
I looked up and across at her, standing straight by the other
side of the hearth, the leaping flames lighting her tumbled hair.
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