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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: different friends who had asked her--all women, just as perhaps now
Mary and Cissy, or one or other of them, were wiring by deputy.
Sometimes she put in too much--too much of her own sense; sometimes
she put in too little; and in either case this often came round to
her afterwards, for she had an extraordinary way of keeping clues.
When she noticed she noticed; that was what it came to. There were
days and days, there were weeks sometimes, of vacancy. This arose
often from Mr. Buckton's devilish and successful subterfuges for
keeping her at the sounder whenever it looked as if anything might
arouse; the sounder, which it was equally his business to mind,
being the innermost cell of captivity, a cage within the cage,
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