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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: gazing at the clear water. "He thought of it a great deal, night and day.
He thought it would be beautiful. At last he made up his mind that it
was his duty, his duty to do just that--nothing less than that.
He felt exalted; he felt sublime. That 's how he likes to feel.
It is better for him than if I had listened to him."
"It 's better for me," smiled Felix. "But do you know,
as regards the sacrifice, that I don't believe he admired you
when this decision was taken quite so much as he had done
a fortnight before?"
"He never admired me. He admires Charlotte; he pitied me.
I know him so well."
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