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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: knew all about Miss Dolman.
"Yes--paid." She saw all sorts of things in this reply, even to a
small suppressed start of surprise at so correct an assumption;
even to an attempt the next minute at a fresh air of detachment.
"How much, with the answer?" The calculation was not abstruse, but
our intense observer required a moment more to make it, and this
gave her ladyship time for a second thought. "Oh just wait!" The
white begemmed hand bared to write rose in sudden nervousness to
the side of the wonderful face which, with eyes of anxiety for the
paper on the counter, she brought closer to the bars of the cage.
"I think I must alter a word!" On this she recovered her telegram
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