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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: He looked again about the room. "Why then, if your life had been
so full of him?"
"Mayn't I put you that question as well? Hadn't your life also
been full of him?"
"Any one's, every one's life who had the wonderful experience of
knowing him. I never spoke of him," Stransom added in a moment,
"because he did me - years ago - an unforgettable wrong." She was
silent, and with the full effect of his presence all about them it
almost startled her guest to hear no protest escape her. She
accepted his words, he turned his eyes to her again to see in what
manner she accepted them. It was with rising tears and a rare
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