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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: a delightful occasion, and there was something particularly agreeable
in the circumstances in which our young Englishmen found themselves.
They were extremely good natured young men; they were more observant than
they appeared; in a sort of inarticulate, accidentally dissimulative fashion,
they were highly appreciative. This was, perhaps, especially the case
with the elder, who was also, as I have said, the man of talent.
They sat down at a little table, which was a very different affair
from the great clattering seesaw in the saloon of the steamer.
The wide doors and windows of the restaurant stood open, beneath large
awnings, to a wide pavement, where there were other plants in tubs,
and rows of spreading trees, and beyond which there was a large
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