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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: promotion was the proof. She listened a while in silence, on this
occasion, to the wafted strains of the music; she took it in as she
had not quite done before that her future was now constituted. Mr.
Mudge was distinctly her fate; yet at this moment she turned her
face quite away from him, showing him so long a mere quarter of her
cheek that she at last again heard his voice. He couldn't see a
pair of tears that were partly the reason of her delay to give him
the assurance he required; but he expressed at a venture the hope
that she had had her fill of Cocker's.
She was finally able to turn back. "Oh quite. There's nothing
going on. No one comes but the Americans at Thrupp's, and they
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