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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: CHAPTER VIII
He forbore to ask her his question again--she might tell him at
her convenience. But the days passed by, and she never told him--
she had her own reasons. Bernard talked with her very often;
conversation formed indeed the chief entertainment of the quiet
little circle of which he was a member. They sat on the
terrace and talked in the mingled starlight and lamplight,
and they strolled in the deep green forests and wound along
the side of the gentle Baden hills, under the influence
of colloquial tendencies. The Black Forest is a country
of almost unbroken shade, and in the still days of midsummer
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