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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: awfully wet?" That was a specimen of their give and take; it fed
her fancy that no form of intercourse so transcendent and distilled
had ever been established on earth. Everything, so far as they
chose to consider it so, might mean almost anything. The want of
margin in the cage, when he peeped through the bars, wholly ceased
to be appreciable. It was a drawback only in superficial commerce.
With Captain Everard she had simply the margin of the universe. It
may be imagined therefore how their unuttered reference to all she
knew about him could in this immensity play at its ease. Every
time he handed in a telegram it was an addition to her knowledge:
what did his constant smile mean to mark if it didn't mean to mark
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