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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: and yet the danger of a renewal of the acquaintance!--
After much thinking, she could determine on nothing better, than Harriet's
returning the visit; but in a way that, if they had understanding,
should convince them that it was to be only a formal acquaintance.
She meant to take her in the carriage, leave her at the Abbey Mill,
while she drove a little farther, and call for her again so soon,
as to allow no time for insidious applications or dangerous
recurrences to the past, and give the most decided proof of what
degree of intimacy was chosen for the future.
She could think of nothing better: and though there was something
in it which her own heart could not approve--something of ingratitude,
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