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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: This was imperious, and she thought he looked disappointed.
While she stood before the door with him--the carriage was
turning in the gravel-walk--this thought restored her serenity.
When she had given him her hand in farewell she looked at him a moment.
"I have almost decided to dispatch that paper," she said.
He knew that she alluded to the document that she had called her renunciation;
and he assisted her into the carriage without saying anything.
But just before the vehicle began to move he said, "Well, when you
have in fact dispatched it, I hope you will let me know!"
CHAPTER VII
Felix young finished Gertrude's portrait, and he afterwards transferred
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