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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: she said, as if this had been a very ingenious hypothesis.
Mrs. Westgate did it justice; she greeted it with a smile
and pronounced it most brilliant, while, in reality, she felt
that the young girl's skepticism, or her charity, or, as she
had sometimes called it appropriately, her idealism,
was proof against irony. Bessie, however, remained meditative
all the rest of that day and well on into the morrow.
On the morrow, before lunch, Mrs. Westgate had occasion to go
out for an hour, and left her sister writing a letter.
When she came back she met Lord Lambeth at the door of the hotel,
coming away. She thought he looked slightly embarrassed;
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