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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: frank assent; but for herself the trouble she had taken could only,
in these fleeting minutes--they would probably never come back--be
all there like a little hoard of gold in her lap. Certainly he
might look at it, handle it, take up the pieces. Yet if he
understood anything he must understand all. "I consider you've
already immensely thanked me." The horror was back upon her of
having seemed to hang about for some reward. "It's awfully odd you
should have been there just the one time--!"
"The one time you've passed my place?"
"Yes; you can fancy I haven't many minutes to waste. There was a
place to-night I had to stop at."
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