The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: who was shaking hands with her sister.
"I found him over there," said Willie Woodley, "and I told
him you were here."
And then Lord Lambeth, touching his hat a little, shook hands with Bessie.
"Fancy your being here!" he said. He was blushing and smiling;
he looked very handsome, and he had a kind of splendor that he had
not had in America. Bessie Alden's imagination, as we know,
was just then in exercise; so that the tall young Englishman,
as he stood there looking down at her, had the benefit of it.
"He is handsomer and more splendid than anything I have ever seen,"
she said to herself. And then she remembered that he was a marquis,
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