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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: "Of me then she never even heard?"
"You'll think I was deceitful. But I didn't need to be!"
He was now on the lower door-step, and his hostess held the door
half-closed behind him. Through what remained of the opening he
saw her framed face. He made a supreme appeal. "What DID he do to
you?"
"It would have come out - SHE would have told you. That fear at my
heart - that was my reason!" And she closed the door, shutting him
out.
CHAPTER VIII.
HE had ruthlessly abandoned her - that of course was what he had
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