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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: I want to make you have a good time. And I should like very much
to present some of my friends to you, if it wouldn't bore you.
Then it would be awfully kind of you to come down to Branches."
"We are much obliged to you, Lord Lambeth," said Bessie.
"What is Branches?"
"It's a house in the country. I think you might like it."
Willie Woodley and Mrs. Westgate at this moment were sitting
in silence, and the young man's ear caught these last words of Lord
Lambeth's. "He's inviting Miss Bessie to one of his castles,"
he murmured to his companion.
Mrs. Westgate, foreseeing what she mentally called "complications,"
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