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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Beast in the Jungle by Henry James: alternately--meeting the eyes from in front and mingling her own
vision, as from over his shoulder, with their peep through the
apertures.
So while they grew older together she did watch with him, and so
she let this association give shape and colour to her own
existence. Beneath HER forms as well detachment had learned to
sit, and behaviour had become for her, in the social sense, a false
account of herself. There was but one account of her that would
have been true all the while and that she could give straight to
nobody, least of all to John Marcher. Her whole attitude was a
virtual statement, but the perception of that only seemed called to
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