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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: Her mother was one before her!"
"You were not happy with your wife?" Newman asked.
M. Nioche gave half a dozen little backward jerks of his head.
"She was my purgatory, monsieur!"
"She deceived you?"
"Under my nose, year after year. I was too stupid,
and the temptation was too great. But I found her out at last.
I have only been once in my life a man to be afraid of;
I know it very well; it was in that hour! Nevertheless I don't
like to think of it. I loved her--I can't tell you how much.
She was a bad woman."
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