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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: is; giving herself away so - with so much to give away."
"Remaining, you mean, so ingenuous - so natural? Oh she doesn't
care a straw - she gives away because she overflows. She has her
own feelings, her own standards; she doesn't keep remembering that
she must be proud. And then she hasn't been here long enough to be
spoiled; she has picked up a fashion or two, but only the amusing
ones. She's a provincial - a provincial of genius," St. George
went on; "her very blunders are charming, her mistakes are
interesting. She has come back from Asia with all sorts of excited
curiosities and unappeased appetities. She's first-rate herself
and she expends herself on the second-rate. She's life herself and
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