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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: calculations--matter for brooding and dreaming, even for peeping
out not quite hopelessly from behind the window-curtains of lonely
lodgings. If she did the flowers for the bachelors, in short,
didn't she expect that to have consequences very different from
such an outlook at Cocker's as she had pronounced wholly desperate?
There seemed in very truth something auspicious in the mixture of
bachelors and flowers, though, when looked hard in the eye, Mrs.
Jordan was not quite prepared to say she had expected a positive
proposal from Lord Rye to pop out of it. Our young woman arrived
at last, none the less, at a definite vision of what was in her
mind. This was a vivid foreknowledge that the betrothed of Mr.
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