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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "She leaves them in America!" said Percy Beaumont.
On the departure of their visitors, Bessie Alden told her sister that
Lord Lambeth would come the next day, to go with them to the Tower,
and that he had kindly offered to bring his "trap" and drive them thither.
Mrs. Westgate listened in silence to this communication,
and for some time afterward she said nothing. But at last,
"If you had not requested me the other day not to mention it,"
she began, "there is something I should venture to ask you."
Bessie frowned a little; her dark blue eyes were more dark than blue.
But her sister went on. "As it is, I will take the risk.
You are not in love with Lord Lambeth: I believe it, perfectly.
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