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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: attitude was more than a holiday, it was almost a rupture.
He had told Tristram that the pendulum was swinging back
and it appeared that the backward swing had not yet ended.
Still "enterprise," which was over in the other quarter wore
to his mind a different aspect at different hours. In its train
a thousand forgotten episodes came trooping back into his memory.
Some of them he looked complacently enough in the face;
from some he averted his head. They were old efforts,
old exploits, antiquated examples of "smartness" and sharpness.
Some of them, as he looked at them, he felt decidedly proud of;
he admired himself as if he had been looking at another man.
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