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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: repeated sharply, and she looked into my face with hatred.
She was standing so near that if I had stooped a lit tle my beard
would have touched her face.
"What is the matter?" I asked. "What harm have I done all at
once?"
Her chin quivered, she hastily wiped her eyes, and, with a
cursory glance at the looking-glass, whispered:
"The old story is beginning all over again. Of course you won't
go away. Well, do as you like. I'll go away myself, and you
stay."
We returned to the drawing-room, she with a resolute face, while
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