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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: absent attention, she managed to have such a charming manner.
That was the manner Gertrude would have liked to have;
she determined to cultivate it, and she wished that--
to give her the charm--she might in future very often be bored.
While she was engaged in these researches, Felix Young was
looking for Charlotte, to whom he had something to say.
For some time, now, he had had something to say to Charlotte,
and this evening his sense of the propriety of holding some
special conversation with her had reached the motive-point--
resolved itself into acute and delightful desire. He wandered
through the empty rooms on the large ground-floor of the house,
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