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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James: "Oh, you know, you know!"
I could say nothing for a minute, though I felt, as I held
his hand and our eyes continued to meet, that my silence
had all the air of admitting his charge and that nothing
in the whole world of reality was perhaps at that moment
so fabulous as our actual relation. "Certainly you shall go
back to school," I said, "if it be that that troubles you.
But not to the old place--we must find another, a better.
How could I know it did trouble you, this question,
when you never told me so, never spoke of it at all?"
His clear, listening face, framed in its smooth whiteness,
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