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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: to lose so valuable an art."
"Taking you altogether, I am glad you are the same," Gordon answered, simply;
"but you must come into my part of the house."
CHAPTER XVII
Yes, he was conscious--he was very conscious; so Bernard reflected
during the two or three first days of his visit to his friend.
Gordon knew it must seem strange to so irreverent a critic
that a man who had once aspired to the hand of so intelligent
a girl--putting other things aside--as Angela Vivian should,
as the Ghost in "Hamlet" says, have "declined upon"
a young lady who, in force of understanding, was so very much
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