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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: utterly incompetent, and begged Tristram to relieve him of the care.
"I didn't know I had a social position," he said, "and if I have,
I haven't the smallest idea what it is. Isn't a social position
knowing some two or three thousand people and inviting them to dinner?
I know you and your wife and little old Mr. Nioche, who gave me French
lessons last spring. Can I invite you to dinner to meet each other?
If I can, you must come to-morrow."
"That is not very grateful to me," said Mrs. Tristram,
"who introduced you last year to every creature I know."
"So you did; I had quite forgotten. But I thought you wanted me to forget,"
said Newman, with that tone of simple deliberateness which frequently marked
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