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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: the hotel. I did, I do, want my child--"
"Well?"--Strether waited with deference while she appeared to hesitate
as to how to put it.
"Well, to do what she can for me."
Strether for a little met her eyes on it; after which something
that might have been unexpected to her came from him. "Poor little
duck!"
Not more expected for himself indeed might well have been her echo
of it. "Poor little duck! But she immensely wants herself," she
said, "to see our friend's cousin."
"Is that what she thinks her?"
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