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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Options by O. Henry: that I like candied violets; that I must not be talked to when I am
looking at the moonlight shining on water, and that I very, very often
long for dates stuffed with English walnuts."
"Frivolity," I said, with a frown. "Any well-trained servant would be
equal to such details."
"And he must remember," went on Chloe, to remind me of what I want
when I do not know, myself, what I want."
"You're rising in the scale," I said. "What you seem to need is a
first-class clairvoyant."
"And if I say that I am dying to hear a Beethoven sonata, and stamp my
foot when I say it, he must know by that that what my soul craves is
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