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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: to see your grandmother on her birthday - and very proper it is,
especially as she won't last for ever. She has lost every faculty
and every sense; she neither sees, nor hears, nor speaks; but all
customary pieties and kindly habits are respectable. Only you're
strong if you DO read 'em! I couldn't, my dear fellow. You are
strong, I know; and that's just a part of what I wanted to say to
you. You're very strong indeed. I've been going into your other
things - they've interested me immensely. Some one ought to have
told me about them before - some one I could believe. But whom can
one believe? You're wonderfully on the right road - it's awfully
decent work. Now do you mean to keep it up? - that's what I want
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