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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: chattering.
CHAPTER XIX
I have called it a stale expedient on Bernard Longueville's part
to "go to Europe" again, like the most commonplace American; and it
is certain that, as our young man stood and looked out of the window
of his inn at Havre, an hour after his arrival at that sea-port,
his adventure did not strike him as having any great freshness.
He had no plans nor intentions; he had not even any very definite desires.
He had felt the impulse to come back to Europe, and he had obeyed it;
but now that he had arrived, his impulse seemed to have little more
to say to him. He perceived it, indeed--mentally--in the attitude
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