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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: was exactly where they naturally WOULD be established in view of
going to pieces. Moreover didn't she mention that Mr. Moreen and
the others were enjoying themselves at the opera with Mr. Granger,
and wasn't THAT also precisely where one would look for them on the
eve of a smash? Pemberton gathered that Mr. Granger was a rich
vacant American - a big bill with a flourishy heading and no items;
so that one of Paula's "ideas" was probably that this time she
hadn't missed fire - by which straight shot indeed she would have
shattered the general cohesion. And if the cohesion was to crumble
what would become of poor Pemberton? He felt quite enough bound up
with them to figure to his alarm as a dislodged block in the
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