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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: She appeared to pursue him, with movements light as a butterfly; her
whole mien was like that of an inquisitive Psyche, or a floating
spirit that might at any moment dissolve and disappear.
Presently the plaintive notes of the gingras, a small flute of
Phoenician origin, replaced the tinkling bells. The attitudes of the
dancing nymph now denoted overpowering lassitude. Her bosom heaved
with sighs, and her whole being expressed profound languor, although
it was not clear whether she sighed for an absent swain or was
expiring of love in his embrace. With half-closed eyes and quivering
form, she caused mysterious undulations to flow downward over her
whole body, like rippling waves, while her face remained impassive and
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