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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: answered that, on the contrary, she had seldom travelled
with fewer discomforts.
"Except, you know, the dreadful heat in the train,"
she added; and he remarked that she would not suffer
from that particular hardship in the country she was
going to.
"I never," he declared with intensity, "was more
nearly frozen than once, in April, in the train between
Calais and Paris."
She said she did not wonder, but remarked that,
after all, one could always carry an extra rug, and that
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