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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: you come back I shall have thought of something witty!"
This made Pemberton say to himself "After all he's rather nice."
CHAPTER II
On the Friday he saw them all, as Mrs. Moreen had promised, for her
husband had come back and the girls and the other son were at home.
Mr. Moreen had a white moustache, a confiding manner and, in his
buttonhole, the ribbon of a foreign order - bestowed, as Pemberton
eventually learned, for services. For what services he never
clearly ascertained: this was a point - one of a large number -
that Mr. Moreen's manner never confided. What it emphatically did
confide was that he was even more a man of the world than you might
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