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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: task that zealous cooperation which might have been desired.
"But what will you have?"' he asked, philosophically. "One is young,
one is pretty, one needs new dresses and fresh gloves; one can't wear
shabby gowns among the splendors of the Louvre."
"But your daughter earns enough to pay for her own clothes," said Newman.
M. Nioche looked at him with weak, uncertain eyes.
He would have liked to be able to say that his daughter's talents
were appreciated, and that her crooked little daubs commanded
a market; but it seemed a scandal to abuse the credulity
of this free-handed stranger, who, without a suspicion
or a question, had admitted him to equal social rights.
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