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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: inferior sense of it. None the less however, his threat did touch
them; for if they had escaped it was only to meet a new danger.
Mr. Moreen appealed to him, on every precedent, as a man of the
world; but his wife had recourse, for the first time since his
domestication with them, to a fine hauteur, reminding him that a
devoted mother, with her child, had arts that protected her against
gross misrepresentation.
"I should misrepresent you grossly if I accused you of common
honesty!" our friend replied; but as he closed the door behind him
sharply, thinking he had not done himself much good, while Mr.
Moreen lighted another cigarette, he heard his hostess shout after
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