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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: pressing pursuit of this knowledge that, in concatenations of
omnibuses and usually in very wet weather, led her so often to my
door. She thought us spiritless creatures with editors and
publishers; but she carried matters to no great effect when she
personally pushed into back-shops. She wanted all moneys to be
paid to herself: they were otherwise liable to such strange
adventures. They trickled away into the desert--they were mainly
at best, alas, a slender stream. The editors and the publishers
were the last people to take this remarkable thinker at the
valuation that has now pretty well come to be established. The
former were half-distraught between the desire to "cut" him and the
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