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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: first care was to make clear to me that if he was now in servitude
it wasn't because she had run after him. Dawling explained with a
hundred grins that when one wished very much to get anything one
usually ended by doing so--a proposition which led me wholly to
dissent and our young lady to asseverate that she hadn't in the
least wished to get Mr. Dawling. She mightn't have wished to get
him, but she wished to show him, and I seemed to read that if she
could treat him as a trophy her affairs were rather at the ebb.
True there always hung from her belt a promiscuous fringe of
scalps. Much at any rate would have come and gone since our
separation in July. She had spent four months abroad, where, on
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