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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: yet, hating it quite so much as that. But she saw that Mrs. Jordan
was conscious of something too, and that there was a degree of
confidence she was waiting little by little to arrive at. The day
came when the girl caught a glimpse of what was still wanting to
make her friend feel strong; which was nothing less than the
prospect of being able to announce the climax of sundry private
dreams. The associate of the aristocracy had personal
calculations--matter for brooding and dreaming, even for peeping
out not quite hopelessly from behind the window-curtains of lonely
lodgings. If she did the flowers for the bachelors, in short,
didn't she expect that to have consequences very different from
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