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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: she went to concerts and listened (at concerts Bessie
always listened), she went to exhibitions and wondered.
Her enjoyment was keen and her curiosity insatiable, and,
grateful in general for all her opportunities, she especially
prized the privilege of meeting certain celebrated persons--
authors and artists, philosophers and statesmen--of whose
renown she had been a humble and distant beholder, and who now,
as a part of the habitual furniture of London drawing rooms,
struck her as stars fallen from the firmament and become palpable--
revealing also sometimes, on contact, qualities not to
have been predicted of sidereal bodies. Bessie, who knew
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