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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: that look on your face for half an hour--while I catch it!" he said.
"It is uncommonly handsome."
"To look handsome for half an hour--that is a great deal to ask
of me," she answered.
"It would be the portrait of a young woman who has taken some vow,
some pledge, that she repents of," said Felix, "and who is thinking
it over at leisure."
"I have taken no vow, no pledge," said Gertrude, very gravely;
"I have nothing to repent of."
"My dear cousin, that was only a figure of speech.
I am very sure that no one in your excellent family has anything
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