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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: said, to come. Before he rose indeed it had quite struck him that
the final fact really matched with the long avenue through which he
had had to reach it. As sharing his suspense and as giving herself
all, giving her life, to bring it to an end, she had come with him
every step of the way. He had lived by her aid, and to leave her
behind would be cruelly, damnably to miss her. What could be more
overwhelming than that?
Well, he was to know within the week, for though she kept him a
while at bay, left him restless and wretched during a series of
days on each of which he asked about her only again to have to turn
away, she ended his trial by receiving him where she had always
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