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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: young kinsman. "She said she could n't fancy what had got into you;
you appeared to have taken a violent dislike to her."
Clifford stared, looking a little alarmed. "Oh, come,"
he growled, "you don't mean that!"
"And that when--for common civility's sake--you came occasionally
to the house you left her alone and spent your time in Felix's studio,
under pretext of looking at his sketches."
"Oh, come!" growled Clifford, again.
"Did you ever know me to tell an untruth?"
"Yes, lots of them!" said Clifford, seeing an opening,
out of the discussion, for his sarcastic powers.
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