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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: "It's in that."
"Published--already?" I was still more surprised.
"Oh Flora can't keep a secret!"--Mrs. Meldrum made it light. She
went up to poor Dawling and laid a motherly hand upon him.
"It's all right--it's just as it ought to be: don't think about
her ever any more." Then as he met this adjuration with a stare
from which thought, and of the most defiant and dismal, fairly
protruded, the excellent woman put up her funny face and tenderly
kissed him on the cheek.
CHAPTER X
I have spoken of these reminiscences as of a row of coloured beads,
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