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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: Attempts at impressiveness always made him feel awkward,
and he now began to laugh and swing his stick. "Ah, you
would have been sure to know!" he said. And then he added,
after an instant, "I'm sorry I am not a better specimen."
The young girl looked away; but she smiled, laying aside her impressiveness.
"You must remember that you are only a beginning," she said.
Then she retraced her steps, leading the way back to the lawn, where they
saw Mrs. Westgate come toward them with Percy Beaumont still at her side.
"Perhaps I shall go to England next year," Miss Alden continued;
"I want to, immensely. My sister is going to Europe, and she has
asked me to go with her. If we go, I shall make her stay as long
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