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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: was good."
He put her the question. "Did it never happen that he spoke of
me?"
Considering more intently she made no answer, and he then knew he
should have been adequately answered by her asking how often he
himself had spoken of their terrible friend. Suddenly a brighter
light broke in her face and an excited idea sprang to her lips in
the appeal: "You HAVE forgiven him?"
"How, if I hadn't, could I linger here?"
She visibly winced at the deep but unintended irony of this; but
even while she did so she panted quickly: "Then in the lights on
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