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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: Bernard tried to answer as seriously as possible.
"Your dilemma seems to me of all dilemmas the strangest."
"That may be; but different people take things differently.
Don't you see," Gordon went on with a sudden outbreak of
passion--"don't you see that I am horribly divided in mind?
I care immensely for Angela Vivian--and yet--and yet--I am afraid
of her."
"Afraid of her?"
"I am afraid she 's cleverer than I--that she would be a difficult wife;
that she might do strange things."
"What sort of things?"
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