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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: felt an incongruously good-natured impulse to help him to retreat
in good order.
"Your visit's a failure, you see," he said. "You offer too little."
"Propose something yourself," said the marquis.
"Give me back Madame de Cintre in the same state in which you
took her from me."
M. de Bellegarde threw back his head and his pale face flushed.
"Never!" he said.
"You can't!"
"We wouldn't if we could! In the sentiment which led us to deprecate
her marriage nothing is changed."
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