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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: he had ever made.
"That is very nice; that is very handsome!" Felix exclaimed.
"I don't understand," said Mr. Wentworth; though it was plain
that every one else did.
"That is very beautiful, Mr. Brand," said Gertrude, emulating Felix.
"I should like to marry you. It will give me great pleasure."
"As Gertrude says, it 's a beautiful idea," said Felix.
Felix was smiling, but Mr. Brand was not even trying to.
He himself treated his proposition very seriously.
"I have thought of it, and I should like to do it," he affirmed.
Charlotte, meanwhile, was staring with expanded eyes.
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