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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: went on to Madame de Cintre's apartment; Newman, perplexed and alarmed,
followed her rapidly. Mrs. Bread threw open the door, and Newman
pushed back the curtain at the farther side of its deep embrasure.
In the middle of the room stood Madame de Cintre; her face was pale
and she was dressed for traveling. Behind her, before the fire-place,
stood Urbain de Bellegarde, looking at his finger-nails; near the marquis
sat his mother, buried in an arm-chair, and with her eyes immediately
fixing themselves upon Newman. He felt, as soon as he entered the room,
that he was in the presence of something evil; he was startled and pained,
as he would have been by a threatening cry in the stillness of the night.
He walked straight to Madame de Cintre and seized her by the hand.
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