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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: box of matches in her pocket, felt her way to the low
shelf on which she had placed the battered lantern,
picked it up and shook it to make sure the oil was
sufficient.
She stepped lightly into the yard, pushed open the
gate of the split-board garden fence, walked
along the edge to the corner and selected a spade
from the tools that leaned against the boards.
Carrying the spade and unlighted lantern in her
left hand, she glided from the yard into the woods.
Her right hand before her to feel for underbrush or
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