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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: explain. She took it again and, after a moment, with her face well
averted, made an odd motion of her arms and a significant little
duck of her head. These slight signs, singular as it may appear,
produced in my bosom an agitation so great that I failed to notice
Lord Iffield's whereabouts. He had rejoined her; he was close upon
her before I knew it or before she knew it herself. I felt at that
instant the strangest of all promptings: if it could have operated
more rapidly it would have caused me to dash between them in some
such manner as to give Flora a caution. In fact as it was I think
I could have done this in time had I not been checked by a
curiosity stronger still than my impulse. There were three seconds
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