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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: a black brocade that would be like a dress in a picture. However,
neither Marguerite nor Lady Agnes nor Haddon nor Fritz nor Gussy
was what the wearer of this garment had really come in for. She
had come in for Everard--and that was doubtless not his true name
either. If our young lady had never taken such jumps before it was
simply that she had never before been so affected. She went all
the way. Mary and Cissy had been round together, in their single
superb person, to see him--he must live round the corner; they had
found that, in consequence of something they had come, precisely,
to make up for or to have another scene about, he had gone off--
gone off just on purpose to make them feel it; on which they had
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