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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: "You are very disappointing, Lord Lambeth," she said.
"Ah, now don't say that," he cried. "That's the worst thing
you could possibly say."
"No," she rejoined, "it is not so bad as to say that I had expected
nothing of you."
"I don't know. Give me a notion of the sort of thing you expected."
"Well," said Bessie Alden, "that you would be more what I should like to be--
what I should try to be--in your place."
"Ah, my place!" exclaimed Lord Lambeth. "You are always talking
about my place.!"
The young girl looked at him; he thought she colored a little;
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