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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: much kindness. Some women -"
He broke off and watched Jean anxiously.
"A half face!" Jean said scornfully. "The pretty view! As for
kindness -" He put the photograph face down on the table. "I knew
once a man in Belgium who married an American. At Antwerp. They were
most unhappy."
Henri smiled.
"You are lying," he said with boyish pleasure in his own astuteness.
"You knew no such couple. You are trying to make me resigned."
But quite a little later, when Jean thought he was asleep, he said:
"I shall never be resigned."
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