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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: she was reserved for some final mercy. "But she has been in the
abysses at any rate," said Mrs. Meldrum, "and I really don't think
I can tell you what pulled her through."
"I think I can tell YOU," I returned. "What in the world but Mrs.
Meldrum?"
At the end of an hour Flora had not come in, and I was obliged to
announce that I should have but time to reach the station, where I
was to find my luggage in charge of my mother's servant. Mrs.
Meldrum put before me the question of waiting till a later train,
so as not to lose our young lady, but I confess I gave this
alternative a consideration less acute than I pretended. Somehow I
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