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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: any account of her keeping in, on whatever roundabout lines, with
the gentry; and when, getting to the bottom of this, she quickly
proceeded to show him the kind of eye she turned on such people and
to give him a sketch of what that eye discovered, she reduced him
to the particular prostration in which he could still be amusing to
her.
CHAPTER X
"They're the most awful wretches, I assure you--the lot all about
there."
"Then why do you want to stay among them?"
"My dear man, just because they ARE. It makes me hate them so."
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