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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Confidence by Henry James: said the Captain. "That 's why Miss Evers got Mrs. Vivian to take
rooms over the baker's--so that she could have ices sent up several
times a day. Well, I 'm bound to say the baker's ices are not bad."
"Considering that they have been baked! But they affect the mind,"
Blanche went on. "They would have affected Captain Lovelock's--
only he has n't any. They certainly affected Angela's--
putting it into her head, at eleven o'clock, to come out
to walk."
Angela did nothing whatever to defend herself against this ingenious sally;
she simply stood there in graceful abstraction. Bernard was vaguely vexed
at her neither looking at him nor speaking to him; her indifference seemed
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