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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: looked at him by way of answer in such sudden headlong
embarrassment, as she was quite aware, that while she remained
silent he showed himself checked by her expression. "You HAVE--
haven't you?--taken a particular interest?"
"Oh a particular interest!" she quavered out, feeling the whole
thing--her headlong embarrassment--get terribly the better of her,
and wishing, with a sudden scare, all the more to keep her emotion
down. She maintained her fixed smile a moment and turned her eyes
over the peopled darkness, unconfused now, because there was
something much more confusing. This, with a fatal great rush, was
simply the fact that they were thus together. They were near,
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