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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: "Lent it to you?"
"She travels with it."
"It's incredible," Paul blushed.
"It's glorious for you, but it also turned out very well for me.
When the ladies went off to bed she kindly offered to send the book
down to me. Her maid brought it to me in the hall and I went to my
room with it. I hadn't thought of coming here, I do that so
little. But I don't sleep early, I always have to read an hour or
two. I sat down to your novel on the spot, without undressing,
without taking off anything but my coat. I think that's a sign my
curiosity had been strongly roused about it. I read a quarter of
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