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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Daisy Miller by Henry James: that, even allowing for her habitual sense of freedom,
he had some expectation of seeing her regard it in the same way.
But it must be confessed that, in this particular,
he was disappointed. Daisy Miller was extremely animated,
she was in charming spirits; but she was apparently not at
all excited; she was not fluttered; she avoided neither his eyes
nor those of anyone else; she blushed neither when she looked
at him nor when she felt that people were looking at her.
People continued to look at her a great deal, and Winterbourne took
much satisfaction in his pretty companion's distinguished air.
He had been a little afraid that she would talk loud, laugh overmuch,
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