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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: handsomely on the article of that young lady: I won't make another
concession. Wait three minutes - I'll be with you." He gave
himself to his departing guests, accompanied the long-trained
ladies to the door. It was a hot night, the windows were open, the
sound of the quick carriages and of the linkmen's call came into
the house. The affair had rather glittered; a sense of festal
things was in the heavy air: not only the influence of that
particular entertainment, but the suggestion of the wide hurry of
pleasure which in London on summer nights fills so many of the
happier quarters of the complicated town. Gradually Mrs. St.
George's drawing-room emptied itself; Paul was left alone with his
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