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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton by Edith Wharton: receive you now. Will you give me a message, or come back
later?"
The visitor, again lifting his hat, briefly replied that he would
come back later, and walked away, as if to regain the front of
the house. As his figure receded down the walk between the yew
hedges, Mary saw him pause and look up an instant at the peaceful
house-front bathed in faint winter sunshine; and it struck her,
with a tardy touch of compunction, that it would have been more
humane to ask if he had come from a distance, and to offer, in
that case, to inquire if her husband could receive him. But as
the thought occurred to her he passed out of sight behind a
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