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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: "My dear fellow, your word is law," said Bernard.
"I want you to take care of those ladies," his friend went on.
"I don't like to leave them alone."
"You are joking!" cried Bernard. "When did you ever hear of my 'taking care'
of any one? It 's as much as I can do to take care of myself."
"This is very easy," said Gordon. "I simply want to feel that they
have a man about them."
"They will have a man at any rate--they have the devoted Lovelock."
"That 's just why I want them to have another. He has only an eye
to Miss Evers, who, by the way, is extremely bored with him.
You look after the others. You have made yourself very agreeable to them,
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