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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: exclaimed with her disgloved hand put up a little backward for me
to take. I dropped into a chair just behind her and, having taken
it and noted that one of the curtains of the box would make the
demonstration sufficiently private, bent my lips over it and
impressed them on its finger-tips. It was given me however, to my
astonishment, to feel next that all the privacy in the world
couldn't have sufficed to mitigate the start with which she greeted
this free application of my moustache: the blood had jumped to her
face, she quickly recovered her hand and jerked at me, twisting
herself round, a vacant challenging stare. During the next few
instants several extraordinary things happened, the first of which
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