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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: Hotel de France, Ostend. Make it seven nine four nine six one.
Wire me alternative Burfield's."
The girl slowly counted. Then he was at Ostend. This hooked on
with so sharp a click that, not to feel she was as quickly letting
it all slip from her, she had absolutely to hold it a minute longer
and to do something to that end. Thus it was that she did on this
occasion what she never did--threw off a "Reply paid?" that sounded
officious, but that she partly made up for by deliberately affixing
the stamps and by waiting till she had done so to give change. She
had, for so much coolness, the strength that she considered she
knew all about Miss Dolman.
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