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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: for you are full of reason. But so am I. What I ask is within
reasonable limits. "
"Granting your happiness were lost," said Bernard--"I say
that only for the argument--is that a ground for your wishing
to deprive me of mine?"
"It is not yours--it is mine, that you have taken! You put
me off my guard, and then you took it! Yours is elsewhere,
and you are welcome to it!"
"Ah," murmured Bernard, giving him a long look and turning away,
"it is well for you that I am willing still to regard you as my
best friend!"
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