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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: nerve left her and she showed me what she has been through--showed
me also all her terror of the harm I could do her. 'Wait till I'm
married! wait till I'm married!' She took hold of me, she almost
sank on her knees. It seems to me highly immoral, one's
participation in her fraud; but there's no doubt that she must be
married: I don't know what I don't see behind it! Therefore," I
wound up, "Dawling must keep his hands off."
Mrs. Meldrum had held her breath; she gave out a long moan. "Well,
that's exactly what I came here to tell him."
"Then here he is." Our host, all unprepared, his latchkey still in
his hand, had just pushed open the door and, startled at finding
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