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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: have only in the thick of it the sense of the money they were
getting back. That had little effect on her, for she got back her
money by seeing many things, the things of the past year, fall
together and connect themselves, undergo the happy relegation that
transforms melancholy and misery, passion and effort, into
experience and knowledge.
She liked having done with them, as she assured herself she had
practically done, and the strange thing was that she neither missed
the procession now nor wished to keep her place for it. It had
become there, in the sun and the breeze and the sea-smell, a far-
away story, a picture of another life. If Mr. Mudge himself liked
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