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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: She fixed him a moment, and he thought she was going to break out
tormentedly, pleadingly: "For God's sake, tell me what IS in it!"
But she checked this impulse - another was stronger. She pocketed
the money - the crudity of the alternative was comical - and swept
out of the room with the desperate concession: "You may tell him
any horror you like!"
CHAPTER VI
A couple of days after this, during which he had failed to profit
by so free a permission, he had been for a quarter of an hour
walking with his charge in silence when the boy became sociable
again with the remark: "I'll tell you how I know it; I know it
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