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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: congratulate his successor on having an hour still to sit in Miss
Fancourt's drawing-room. He himself might use that hour for
another visit, but by the time he reached the Marble Arch the idea
of such a course had become incongruous to him. He passed beneath
that architectural effort and walked into the Park till he got upon
the spreading grass. Here he continued to walk; he took his way
across the elastic turf and came out by the Serpentine. He watched
with a friendly eye the diversions of the London people, he bent a
glance almost encouraging on the young ladies paddling their
sweethearts about the lake and the guardsmen tickling tenderly with
their bearskins the artificial flowers in the Sunday hats of their
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