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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: Stewart's complex motives. He wished to spare her any sight that
might offend, frighten, or disgust her. Yet this Stewart, who
showed a fineness of feeling that might have been wanting even in
Boyd Harvey, maintained a secret rendezvous with that pretty,
abandoned Bonita. Here always the hot shame, like a live,
stinging, internal fire, abruptly ended Madeline's thought. It
was intolerable, and it was the more so because she could neither
control nor understand it. The hours wore on, and at length, as
the stars began to pale and there was no sound whatever, she fell
asleep.
She was called out of her slumber. Day had broken bright and
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