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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: and the same cold, unsociable fixedness in the eyes of each,
he cried out to himself that the fear was groundless.
There was blood in the secret at the very last! He arrived at
Fleurieres almost in a state of elation; he had satisfied himself,
logically, that in the presence of his threat of exposure they would,
as he mentally phrased it, rattle down like unwound buckets.
He remembered indeed that he must first catch his hare--
first ascertain what there was to expose; but after that,
why shouldn't his happiness be as good as new again?
Mother and son would drop their lovely victim in terror
and take to hiding, and Madame de Cintre, left to herself,
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