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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: hand he had certainly become engaged the day he returned. The
happy pair went down to Torquay for their honeymoon, and there, in
a reckless hour, it occurred to poor Corvick to take his young
bride a drive. He had no command of that business: this had been
brought home to me of old in a little tour we had once made
together in a dogcart. In a dogcart he perched his companion for a
rattle over Devonshire hills, on one of the likeliest of which he
brought his horse, who, it was true, had bolted, down with such
violence that the occupants of the cart were hurled forward and
that he fell horribly on his head. He was killed on the spot;
Gwendolen escaped unhurt.
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