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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: Bessie expressed hereupon an earnest disposition to go alone; but upon
this proposal as well Mrs. Westgate sprinkled cold water.
"Remember," she said, "that you are not in your innocent little Boston.
It is not a question of walking up and down Beacon Street."
Then she went on to explain that there were two classes of American
girls in Europe--those that walked about alone and those that did not.
"You happen to belong, my dear," she said to her sister, "to the class
that does not."
"It is only," answered Bessie, laughing, "because you happen to prevent me."
And she devoted much private meditation to this question of effecting a visit
to the Tower of London.
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