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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: was as moving as the trustful clasp of a child. Then he
remembered the passionate generosity latent under that
incurious calm. He recalled her glance of understanding
when he had urged that their engagement should be
announced at the Beaufort ball; he heard the voice in
which she had said, in the Mission garden: "I couldn't
have my happiness made out of a wrong--a wrong to
some one else;" and an uncontrollable longing seized
him to tell her the truth, to throw himself on her
generosity, and ask for the freedom he had once refused.
Newland Archer was a quiet and self-controlled young
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