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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: the struggles had naturally not straightened a feature, an almost
super-eminent air. There were women in and out of Cocker's who
were quite nice and who yet didn't look well; whereas Mrs. Jordan
looked well and yet, with her extraordinarily protrusive teeth, was
by no means quite nice. It would seem, mystifyingly, that it might
really come from all the greatness she could live with. It was
fine to hear her talk so often of dinners of twenty and of her
doing, as she said, exactly as she liked with them. She spoke as
if, for that matter, she invited the company. "They simply give me
the table--all the rest, all the other effects, come afterwards."
CHAPTER VII
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