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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: who went in for Latin and Greek and all the learning of her age."
"YOU have no right to be ignorant, at all events," said Bessie.
"Why haven't I as good a right as anyone else?"
"Because you have lived in the midst of all these things."
"What things do you mean? Axes, and blocks, and thumbscrews?"
"All these historical things. You belong to a historical family."
"Bessie is really too historical," said Mrs. Westgate,
catching a word of this dialogue.
"Yes, you are too historical," said Lord Lambeth, laughing, but thankful
for a formula. "Upon my honor, you are too historical!"
He went with the ladies a couple of days later to Hampton Court,
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