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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: at the floor, and Felix presently added, "Do go on with your slipper,
I like to see you work."
Charlotte took up her variegated canvas, and began to draw
vague blue stitches in a big round rose. "If Gertrude is so--
so strange," she said, "why do you want to marry her?"
"Ah, that 's it, dear Charlotte! I like strange women;
I always have liked them. Ask Eugenia! And Gertrude is wonderful;
she says the most beautiful things!"
Charlotte looked at him, almost for the first time,
as if her meaning required to be severely pointed.
"You have a great influence over her. "
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