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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Edition of The Ambassadors by Henry James: "YOU have them!"
"As one of the signs," she continued in the same tone, "they
constitute perhaps the worst."
He thought it over and his gravity returned. "Is it a refinement
not to answer his mother's letters?"
She appeared to have a scruple, but she brought it out. "Oh I
should say the greatest of all."
"Well," said Strether, "I'M quite content to let it, as one of the
signs, pass for the worst that I know he believes he can do what he
likes with me."
This appeared to strike her. "How do you know it?"
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