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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: which struck them as an extraordinary mixture of a ship and a hotel.
It was densely crowded with passengers, the larger number
of whom appeared to be ladies and very young children;
and in the big saloons, ornamented in white and gold,
which followed each other in surprising succession,
beneath the swinging gaslight, and among the small side
passages where the Negro domestics of both sexes assembled
with an air of philosophic leisure, everyone was moving
to and fro and exchanging loud and familiar observations.
Eventually, at the instance of a discriminating black,
our young men went and had some "supper" in a wonderful
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