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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: I shall write to my wife by this afternoon's mail,
and tomorrow morning she and Miss Alden will look out for you.
Just walk right in and make yourself comfortable.
Your steamer leaves from this part of the city, and I will
immediately send out and get you a cabin. Then, at half past
four o'clock, just call for me here, and I will go with you
and put you on board. It's a big boat; you might get lost.
A few days hence, at the end of the week, I will come down
to Newport and see how you are getting on."
The two young Englishmen inaugurated the policy of not resisting Mrs. Westgate
by submitting, with great docility and thankfulness, to her husband.
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