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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: in white jackets, were shuffling about upon an uncarpeted floor;
where the flies were superabundant, and the tables and dishes covered
over with a strange, voluminous integument of coarse blue gauze;
and where several little boys and girls, who had risen late,
were seated in fastidious solitude at the morning repast.
These young persons had not the morning paper before them,
but they were engaged in languid perusal of the bill of fare.
This latter document was a great puzzle to our friends, who, on reflecting
that its bewildering categories had relation to breakfast alone,
had an uneasy prevision of an encyclopedic dinner list.
They found a great deal of entertainment at the hotel, an enormous
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