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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: on Saturday. He had moreover a constant gift of inexorable enquiry
as to where and what they should have gone and have done if they
hadn't been exactly as they were. He had in short his resources,
and his mistress had never been so conscious of them; on the other
hand they never interfered so little with her own. She liked to be
as she was--if it could only have lasted. She could accept even
without bitterness a rigour of economy so great that the little fee
they paid for admission to the pier had to be balanced against
other delights. The people at Ladle's and at Thrupp's had THEIR
ways of amusing themselves, whereas she had to sit and hear Mr.
Mudge talk of what he might do if he didn't take a bath, or of the
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