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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen: but he was James's friend and Isabella's brother;
and her judgment was further bought off by Isabella's
assuring her, when they withdrew to see the new hat,
that John thought her the most charming girl in the world,
and by John's engaging her before they parted to dance
with him that evening. Had she been older or vainer,
such attacks might have done little; but, where youth
and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness
of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most
charming girl in the world, and of being so very early
engaged as a partner; and the consequence was that,
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