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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: "Everything!" Then abruptly she put out her hand in farewell.
"Good-bye."
He turned as cold as he had turned that night he read the man's
death. "You mean that we meet no more?"
"Not as we've met - not THERE!"
He stood aghast at this snap of their great bond, at the
renouncement that rang out in the word she so expressively sounded.
"But what's changed - for you?"
She waited in all the sharpness of a trouble that for the first
time since he had known her made her splendidly stern. "How can
you understand now when you didn't understand before?"
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