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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: Pemberton somehow as expressive. After a moment the child
repeated: "You are a hero!" Then he added: "They leave me with
you altogether. You've all the responsibility. They put me off on
you from morning till night. Why then should they object to my
taking up with you completely? I'd help you."
"They're not particularly keen about my being helped, and they
delight in thinking of you as THEIRS. They're tremendously proud
of you."
"I'm not proud of THEM. But you know that," Morgan returned.
"Except for the little matter we speak of they're charming people,"
said Pemberton, not taking up the point made for his intelligence,
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