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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: you're not straight - I am!"
"How am I not straight?"
"Oh you've got your idea!"
"My idea?"
"Why that I probably shan't make old - make older - bones, and that
you can stick it out till I'm removed."
"You ARE too clever to live!" Pemberton repeated.
"I call it a mean idea," Morgan pursued. "But I shall punish you
by the way I hang on."
"Look out or I'll poison you!" Pemberton laughed.
"I'm stronger and better every year. Haven't you noticed that
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