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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: of the chase - he would bring down the animal with his own rifle.
When I asked him if Miss Erme were as keen a shot he said after
thinking: "No, I'm ashamed to say she wants to set a trap. She'd
give anything to see him; she says she requires another tip. She's
really quite morbid about it. But she must play fair - she SHAN'T
see him!" he emphatically added. I wondered if they hadn't even
quarrelled a little on the subject - a suspicion not corrected by
the way he more than once exclaimed to me: "She's quite incredibly
literary, you know - quite fantastically!" I remember his saying
of her that she felt in italics and thought in capitals. "Oh when
I've run him to earth," he also said, "then, you know, I shall
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