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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: that when eventually the motive was supplied each could to a
certain extent compliment the other on the fineness of his
foresight.
After he had begun to haunt my studio Miss Saunt quite gave it up,
and I finally learned that she accused me of conspiring with him to
put pressure on her to marry him. She didn't know I would take it
that way, else she would never have brought him to see me. It was
in her view a part of the conspiracy that to show him a kindness I
asked him at last to sit to me. I dare say moreover she was
disgusted to hear that I had ended by attempting almost as many
sketches of his beauty as I had attempted of hers. What was the
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