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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: the "sweet sea-city." That was what made him have a sneaking
kindness for them - that they were so out of the workaday world and
kept him so out of it. The summer had waned when, with cries of
ecstasy, they all passed out on the balcony that overhung the Grand
Canal. The sunsets then were splendid and the Dorringtons had
arrived. The Dorringtons were the only reason they hadn't talked
of at breakfast; but the reasons they didn't talk of at breakfast
always came out in the end. The Dorringtons on the other hand came
out very little; or else when they did they stayed - as was natural
- for hours, during which periods Mrs. Moreen and the girls
sometimes called at their hotel (to see if they had returned) as
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