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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: me see that you are not a humbug. She 's a very handsome
girl."
Longueville was so much amused with this appeal that he very
soon started for Germany. In the reader, Gordon Wright's
letter will, perhaps, excite surprise rather than hilarity;
but Longueville thought it highly characteristic of his friend.
What it especially pointed to was Gordon's want of imagination--
a deficiency which was a matter of common jocular allusion
between the two young men, each of whom kept a collection
of acknowledged oddities as a playground for the other's wit.
Bernard had often spoken of his comrade's want of imagination
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