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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: missed the vulgarity they might have had. Again his talk rambled
inconsequently over his youth, and he would urge himself or
someone else of the same name to better life.
"Ned, Ned, remember your mother," he would beseech. "She asked me
to look after you. Don't go wrong." Or else it would be, "Don't
disgrace the general, Ned. You'll break his heart if you blacken
the old name." To this theme he recurred repeatedly, and she
noticed that when he imagined himself in the East his language
was correct and his intonation cultured, though still with a
suggestion of a Southern softness.
But when he spoke of her his speech lapsed into the familiar
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