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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: That will supplant the other, which only comes from
his puerility, from his not taking his position in the world--
that of a rich young man of ancient stock--seriously enough.
Make him a little more serious. Even if he makes love to you
it is no great matter."
"I am to offer myself as a superior form of intoxication--
a substitute for a brandy bottle, eh?" asked the Baroness.
"Truly, in this country one comes to strange uses."
But she had not positively declined to undertake Clifford's
higher education, and Felix, who had not thought of the matter
again, being haunted with visions of more personal profit,
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