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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: "Ah he's often obscure!" Paul laughed.
"Obscure?" she repeated as if she heard it for the first time. Her
eyes rested on her other friend, and it wasn't lost upon Paul that
they appeared to send out great shafts of softness. "He's going to
speak to us!" she fondly breathed. There was a sort of rapture in
her voice, and our friend was startled. "Bless my soul, does she
care for him like THAT? - is she in love with him?" he mentally
enquired. "Didn't I tell you he was eager?" she had meanwhile
asked of him.
"It's eagerness dissimulated," the young man returned as the
subject of their observation lingered before his Gainsborough. "He
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