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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: may almost be called, of the oppressive gravity of mistakes was
one of the most cherished traditions of the Wentworth family.
"I don't believe she wants to come and stay in this house,"
said Gertrude; Madame Munster, from this time forward,
receiving no other designation than the personal pronoun.
Charlotte and Gertrude acquired considerable facility in
addressing her, directly, as "Eugenia;" but in speaking of her
to each other they rarely called her anything but "she."
"Does n't she think it good enough for her?" cried little Lizzie Acton,
who was always asking unpractical questions that required, in strictness,
no answer, and to which indeed she expected no other answer than such as she
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