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Select the correct text in the passage.
Which two details best show how the people of Winesburg feel about George?
[7] On the station platform everyone shook the young man's hand. More than a dozen people waited about. Then they talked of
their own affairs. Even Will Henderson, who was lazy and often slept until nine, had got out of bed. George was embarrassed.
Gertrude Wilmot, a tall thin woman of fifty who worked in the Winesburg post office, came along the station platform. She had
never before paid any attention to George. Now she stopped and put out her hand. In two words she voiced what everyone felt.
"Good luck," she said sharply and then turning went on her way.
