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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: mind at once and endless right change to make and information to
produce. But she kept hold of him throughout; she continued, for
herself, in a relation with him as close as that in which, behind
the hated ground glass, Mr. Buckton luckily continued with the
sounder. This morning everything changed, but rather to
dreariness; she had to swallow the rebuff to her theory about fatal
desires, which she did without confusion and indeed with absolute
levity; yet if it was now flagrant that he did live close at hand--
at Park Chambers--and belonged supremely to the class that wired
everything, even their expensive feelings (so that, as he never
wrote, his correspondence cost him weekly pounds and pounds, and he
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