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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: masterly retreat. "How is he? where is he?" he asked of Mrs.
Moreen; but before she could speak these questions were answered by
the pressure round hid neck of a pair of arms, in shrunken sleeves,
which still were perfectly capable of an effusive young foreign
squeeze.
"Dreadfully ill - I don't see it!" the young man cried. And then
to Morgan: "Why on earth didn't you relieve me? Why didn't you
answer my letter?"
Mrs. Moreen declared that when she wrote he was very bad, and
Pemberton learned at the same time from the boy that he had
answered every letter he had received. This led to the clear
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