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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells: For a long time Sir Richmond had met no one so interesting
and amusing as this frank-minded young woman from America.
"Young woman" was how he thought of her; she didn't
correspond to anything so prim and restrained and extensively
reserved and withheld as a "young lady "; and though he
judged her no older than five and twenty, the word "girl"
with its associations of virginal ignorances, invisible
purdah, and trite ideas newly discovered, seemed even less
appropriate for her than the word "boy." She had an air of
having in some obscure way graduated in life, as if so far
she had lived each several year of her existence in a
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