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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: "I am sorry."
Henri took a turn up and down the room.
"But," said Sara Lee slowly, "I-I- can't be on your hands, you know.
You must have many things to do. If you are going to have to order my
meals and all that, I'm going to he a dreadful burden."
"But you will learn very quickly."
"I'm stupid about languages."
Henri dismissed that with a gesture. She could not, he felt, be stupid
about anything. He went to the window and looked out. The destroyers
were still coaling, and a small cargo was being taken off the boat at
the quay. The rain was over, and in the early sunlight an officer in
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