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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: weeks ago?" And then, as Newman, vainly consulting his memory,
was obliged to confess that the promise had escaped it,
she declared that he had made her, at the time, a very
queer answer--an answer at which, viewing it in the light
of the sequel, she had fair ground for taking offense.
"You promised to take me to Bullier's after your marriage.
After your marriage--you made a great point of that.
Three days after that your marriage was broken off. Do you know,
when I heard the news, the first thing I said to myself?
'Oh heaven, now he won't go with me to Bullier's!' And I really
began to wonder if you had not been expecting the rupture."
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