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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: But I entreat you to give me a chance."
She was silent a while; her eyes wandered over the great prospect of Paris.
"Do you know how you can please me now?" she said, at last.
"By leaving me alone."
Bernard looked at her a moment, then came straight back into the drawing-room
and took his hat.
"You see I avail myself of the first chance. But I shall come back to-morrow."
"I am greatly obliged to you for what you have said.
Such a speech as that deserves to be listened to with consideration.
You may come back to-morrow," Angela added.
On the morrow, when he came back, she received him alone.
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