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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: wrote from his home in the country, "I cannot bear leaving you,
and I don't mean to. We will live together." But he adds that
he is depressed by difficulties with his family, "not about money
or business but of a kind he can only communicate to her
verbally." To the widow it was clear that these difficulties
must relate to the subject of marriage. The character of Georges
was not a strong one; sooner or later he might yield to the
importunities of his family; her reign would be ended, a modest
and insufficient pension the utmost she could hope for. She had
passed the meridian of her life as a charmer of men, her health
was giving way, she was greedy, ambitious, acquisitive. In
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