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Select the correct text in the passage. in this excerpt from o. henry’s short story “a retrieved reformation,” which sentence supports the theme “love can change a person"? one afternoon jimmy valentine and his suit-case climbed out of the mail-hack in elmore, a little town five miles off the railroad down in the black-jack country of arkansas. jimmy, looking like an athletic young senior just home from college, went down the board side-walk toward the hotel. a young lady crossed the street, passed him at the corner and entered a door over which was the sign, "the elmore bank." jimmy valentine looked into her eyes, forgot what he was, and became another man. she lowered her eyes and coloured slightly. young men of jimmy's style and looks were scarce in elmore. jimmy collared a boy that was loafing on the steps of the bank as if he were one of the stockholders, and began to ask him questions about the town, feeding him dimes at intervals. by and by the young lady came out, looking royally unconscious of the young man with the suit-case, and went her way. "isn't that young lady polly simpson? " asked jimmy, with specious guile. "naw," said the boy. "she's annabel adams. her pa owns this bank. what'd you come to elmore for? is that a gold watch-chain? i'm going to get a bulldog. got any more dimes? " jimmy went to the planters' hotel, registered as ralph d. spencer, and engaged a room. he leaned on the desk and declared his platform to the clerk. he said he had come to elmore to look for a location to go into business. how was the shoe business, now, in the town? he had thought of the shoe business. was there an opening?

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