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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Virginian by Owen Wister: were more at ease now than was I, who had nothing to do but carry
out my role of slumber in the stall; they spoke in a friendly,
ordinary way, as if this were like every other morning of the
week to them. They addressed the prisoners with a sort of
fraternal kindness, not bringing them pointedly into the
conversation, nor yet pointedly leaving them out. I made out that
they must all be sitting round the breakfast together, those who
had to die and those who had to kill them. The Virginian I never
heard speak. But I heard the voice of Steve; he discussed with
his captors the sundry points of his capture.
"Do you remember a haystack?" he asked. "Away up the south fork
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