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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: sweetness to his sense of relief.
"It was a very small penance for you to pay."
"You dismissed him definitely, and that was why he vanished?"
asked Bernard, wondering still.
"He gave me another 'chance,' as you elegantly express it,
and I declined to take advantage of it."
"Ah, well, now," cried Bernard, "I am sorry for him!"
"I was very kind--very respectful," said Angela. "I thanked him from
the bottom of my heart; I begged his pardon very humbly for the wrong--
if wrong it was--that I was doing him. I did n't in the least require
of him that he should leave Baden at seven o'clock the next morning.
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