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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: wife?"
Miss Fancourt made no direct answer, but after a moment's
hesitation put it: "Isn't she charming?"
"Not in the least!"
"Here he comes. Now you must know him," she went on. A small
group of visitors had gathered at the other end of the gallery and
had been there overtaken by Henry St. George, who strolled in from
a neighbouring room. He stood near them a moment, not falling into
the talk but taking up an old miniature from a table and vaguely
regarding it. At the end of a minute he became aware of Miss
Fancourt and her companion in the distance; whereupon, laying down
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