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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: the feeling - a very old story with me, I beg you to believe -
under the momentary influence of which I used in speaking to that
good lady the words you so naturally resent. I don't read the
things in the newspapers unless they're thrust upon me as that one
was - it's always one's best friend who does it! But I used to
read them sometimes - ten years ago. I dare say they were in
general rather stupider then; at any rate it always struck me they
missed my little point with a perfection exactly as admirable when
they patted me on the back as when they kicked me in the shins.
Whenever since I've happened to have a glimpse of them they were
still blazing away - still missing it, I mean, deliciously. YOU
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