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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: offensively forward: "Do you WANT very much to come?"
"Can you doubt it after such a description of what I shall hear?"
Pemberton replied. Yet he didn't want to come at all; he was
coming because he had to go somewhere, thanks to the collapse of
his fortune at the end of a year abroad spent on the system of
putting his scant patrimony into a single full wave of experience.
He had had his full wave but couldn't pay the score at his inn.
Moreover he had caught in the boy's eyes the glimpse of a far-off
appeal.
"Well, I'll do the best I can for you," said Morgan; with which he
turned away again. He passed out of one of the long windows;
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