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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: he would send me about my business. Mrs. Erme's death brought
Corvick straight home, and within the month he was united "very
quietly" - as quietly, I seemed to make out, as he meant in his
article to bring out his trouvaille - to the young lady he had
loved and quitted. I use this last term, I may parenthetically
say, because I subsequently grew sure that at the time he went to
India, at the time of his great news from Bombay, there had been no
positive pledge between them whatever. There had been none at the
moment she was affirming to me the very opposite. On the other
hand he had certainly become engaged the day he returned. The
happy pair went down to Torquay for their honeymoon, and there, in
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