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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: very near lapsing. His idea, to do him justice, was that it SHOULD
lapse if exactly the right person, the perfect mixture of genius
and chill penury, should fail to turn up. Ah the poor dear woman's
very particular--she says there must be no mistake."
I found all this quite thrilling--I took it in with avidity. "And
if she dies without doing anything, what becomes of the money?" I
demanded.
"It goes back to his family, if she hasn't made some other
disposition of it."
"She may do that then--she may divert it?"
"Her hands are not tied. She has a grand discretion. The proof is
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