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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: "forms," the straying of stamps and the ring of change over the
counter, the people she had fallen into the habit of remembering
and fitting together with others, and of having her theories and
interpretations of, kept up before her their long procession and
rotation. What twisted the knife in her vitals was the way the
profligate rich scattered about them, in extravagant chatter over
their extravagant pleasures and sins, an amount of money that would
have held the stricken household of her frightened childhood, her
poor pinched mother and tormented father and lost brother and
starved sister, together for a lifetime. During her first weeks
she had often gasped at the sums people were willing to pay for the
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