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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: return there to live. She would go once more and see that all
was in order for Mr. Lambert, both in the house and on board
the yacht, where they were to have taken up their abode for a
time. There were new servants in the house, a new captain on
the yacht; she would trust Mr. Lambert's comfort to none of
them; she would do her full duty. Duty! the more utterly she
felt herself to be gliding away from him forever, the more
pains she was ready to lavish in doing these nothings well.
About every insignificant article he owned she seemed to feel
the most scrupulous and wife-like responsibility; while she yet
knew that all she had was to him nothing, compared with the
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