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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: entered the famous inclosure; and they secured the services of a
venerable beefeater, who, though there were many other claimants for
legendary information, made a fine exclusive party of them and marched
them through courts and corridors, through armories and prisons.
He delivered his usual peripatetic discourse, and they stopped and stared,
and peeped and stooped, according to the official admonitions.
Bessie Alden asked the old man in the crimson doublet a great
many questions; she thought it a most fascinating place.
Lord Lambeth was in high good humor; he was constantly laughing;
he enjoyed what he would have called the lark. Willie Woodley kept
looking at the ceilings and tapping the walls with the knuckle
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