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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: brilliant eyes at the Baroness.
"And what is your son's name?" said Eugenia, smiling at the young man.
"My name is Clifford Wentworth, ma'am," he said in a tremulous voice.
"Why did n't you come out to meet me, Mr. Clifford Wentworth?"
the Baroness demanded, with her beautiful smile.
"I did n't think you would want me," said the young man,
slowly sidling about.
"One always wants a beau cousin,--if one has one! But if you
are very nice to me in future I won't remember it against you."
And Madame M; auunster transferred her smile to the other persons present.
It rested first upon the candid countenance and long-skirted figure
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