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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: the happiest hours of his life, straight from Hugh Vereker."
He looked at me like a dim phrenological bust. "The information -
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"Vereker's secret, my dear man - the general intention of his
books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure,
the figure in the carpet."
He began to flush - the numbers on his bumps to come out.
"Vereker's books had a general intention?"
I stared in my turn. "You don't mean to say you don't know it?" I
thought for a moment he was playing with me. "Mrs. Deane knew it;
she had it, as I say, straight from Corvick, who had, after
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