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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: Charlotte is not happy! Charlotte is in love." And Felix,
drawing nearer, laid his hand again upon his companion's arm.
There was something akin to an acknowledgment of fascination in the way
Mr. Brand looked at him; but the young clergyman retained as yet quite
enough self-possession to be able to say, with a good deal of solemnity,
"She is not in love with you."
Felix gave a light laugh, and rejoined with the alacrity
of a maritime adventurer who feels a puff of wind in his sail.
"Ah, no; if she were in love with me I should know it!
I am not so blind as you."
"As I?"
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