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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: into a serious desire to understand him better.
"I wish you'd tell me how it happened," I said.
He stood looking up at the sketch, and twirling between his
fingers a cigarette he had forgotten to light. Suddenly he
turned toward me.
"I'd rather like to tell you--because I've always suspected you
of loathing my work."
I made a deprecating gesture, which he negatived with a good-
humoured shrug.
"Oh, I didn't care a straw when I believed in myself--and now
it's an added tie between us!"
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