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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: "I will go, then, and announce to our cousins the arrival
of a personage so extraordinary. They will immediately come
and pay you their respects."
Eugenia paced the length of the room again, and then she
stopped before her brother, laying her hand upon his arm.
"They are not to come and see me," she said. "You are not
to allow that. That is not the way I shall meet them first."
And in answer to his interrogative glance she went on.
"You will go and examine, and report. You will come
back and tell me who they are and what they are;
their number, gender, their respective ages--all about them.
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