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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: My friend, with an odd impulse, fell back a step.
"Was she someone you've never seen?"
"Yes. But someone the child has. Someone YOU have."
Then, to show how I had thought it all out: "My predecessor--
the one who died."
"Miss Jessel?"
"Miss Jessel. You don't believe me?" I pressed.
She turned right and left in her distress. "How can you be sure?"
This drew from me, in the state of my nerves, a flash of impatience.
"Then ask Flora--SHE'S sure!" But I had no sooner spoken
than I caught myself up. "No, for God's sake, DON'T!"
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