The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: Flora's own. I felt as if a great rare sapphire had split in my
hand.
CHAPTER III
This conversation occurred the night before I went back to town. I
settled on the morrow to take a late train, so that I had still my
morning to spend at Folkestone, where during the greater part of it
I was out with my mother. Every one in the place was as usual out
with some one else, and even had I been free to go and take leave
of her I should have been sure that Flora Saunt would not be at
home. Just where she was I presently discovered: she was at the
far end of the cliff, the point at which it overhangs the pretty
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