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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: fresh as before from the hands of Marguerite, or only, at the
season's end, a trifle less fresh. She was, however, distinctly
less serene. She had brought nothing with her and looked about
with impatience for the forms and the place to write. The latter
convenience, at Cocker's, was obscure and barely adequate, and her
clear voice had the light note of disgust which her lover's never
showed as she responded with a "There?" of surprise to the gesture
made by the counter-clerk in answer to her sharp question. Our
young friend was busy with half a dozen people, but she had
dispatched them in her most businesslike manner by the time her
ladyship flung through the bars this light of re-appearance. Then
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