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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: for the rest of the night. It startled him, as I have said,
at first; then, the next morning, it led him to take his
departure for Paris. During the journey it lingered in his ear;
he sat in the corner of the railway-carriage with his eyes
closed, abstracted, on purpose to prolong the reverberation.
If it were not true it was at least, as the Italians have it,
ben trovato, and it was wonderful how well it bore thinking of.
It bears telling less well; but I can at least give a hint of it.
The theory that Angela hated him had evaporated in her presence,
and another of a very different sort had sprung into being.
It fitted a great many of the facts, it explained a great
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