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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: confidence moreover that he should do so even better if he could
have a little supper. Mrs. Moreen threw out more hints about the
changes that were to be looked for, but she was such a mixture of
smiles and shudders - she confessed she was very nervous - that he
couldn't tell if she were in high feather or only in hysterics. If
the family was really at last going to pieces why shouldn't she
recognise the necessity of pitching Morgan into some sort of
lifeboat? This presumption was fostered by the fact that they were
established in luxurious quarters in the capital of pleasure; that
was exactly where they naturally WOULD be established in view of
going to pieces. Moreover didn't she mention that Mr. Moreen and
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