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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehart: and wiped her eyes.
"If you only spoke French - " began Mr. Travers.
Sara Lee looked over her shoulder. "But of course I do!" she said.
"And German and - and Yiddish, and all sorts of languages. Every spy
does."
Henri smiled appreciatively.
It might all have ended there very easily. Sara Lee might have fought
the War Office single-handed and won out, but it is extremely unlikely.
The chances at that moment were that she would spend endless days and
hours in anterooms, and tell her story and make her plea a hundred times.
And then - go back home to Harvey and the Leete house, and after a time,
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