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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: Mrs. Mulville had to remount the stream. "It was everything one
could wish."
Something in her tone made me laugh. "Do you mean she gave him--a
dole?"
"Well, since you ask me!"
"Right there on the spot?"
Again poor Adelaide faltered. "It was to me of course she gave
it."
I stared; somehow I couldn't see the scene. "Do you mean a sum of
money?"
"It was very handsome." Now at last she met my eyes, though I
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