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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: being affectionate and wise about it. There were times when she
wondered how in the world she could "put up with" him, how she
could put up with any man so smugly unconscious of the immensity of
her difference. It was just for this difference that, if she was
to be liked at all, she wanted to be liked, and if that was not the
source of Mr. Mudge's admiration, she asked herself what on earth
COULD be? She was not different only at one point, she was
different all round; unless perhaps indeed in being practically
human, which her mind just barely recognised that he also was. She
would have made tremendous concessions in other quarters: there
was no limit for instance to those she would have made to Captain
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