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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: "She will have to write a note and send it over."
"I don't think she will take any trouble," said Gertrude, profoundly.
"What then will she do?"
"That is what I am curious to see," said Gertrude, leaving her sister
with an impression that her curiosity was morbid.
They went to see the Baroness without preliminary correspondence;
and in the little salon which she had already created, with its
becoming light and its festoons, they found Robert Acton.
Eugenia was intensely gracious, but she accused them of neglecting
her cruelly. "You see Mr. Acton has had to take pity upon me," she said.
"My brother goes off sketching, for
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