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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: "Is n't she charming?"
"She is very brilliant," said Gertrude. "But I can't tell yet.
She seems to me like a singer singing an air. You can't tell till
the song is done."
"Ah, the song will never be done!" exclaimed the young man, laughing.
"Don't you think her handsome?"
Gertrude had been disappointed in the beauty of the
Baroness Munster; she had expected her, for mysterious reasons,
to resemble a very pretty portrait of the Empress Josephine,
of which there hung an engraving in one of the parlors,
and which the younger Miss Wentworth had always greatly admired.
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