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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: in a little, light, conciliating voice, and graciously accepting
the drawing again.
"I will admit," said Longueville, "that I am very inconsistent.
Set it down to my esteem, madam," he added, looking at the mother.
"That 's for you, mamma," said his model, disengaging her arm
from her mother's hand and turning away.
The mamma stood looking at the sketch with a smile which seemed to express
a tender desire to reconcile all accidents.
"It 's extremely beautiful," she murmured, "and if you insist
on my taking it--"
"I shall regard it as a great honor."
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