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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: that the other party to the affair must sometimes mention in Eaton
Square the extraordinary little person at the place from which he
so often wired. Yet the perception of her visitor's blankness
actually helped this extraordinary little person, the next instant,
to take refuge in a reflexion that could be as proud as it liked.
"How little she knows, how little she knows!" the girl cried to
herself; for what did that show after all but that Captain
Everard's telegraphic confidant was Captain Everard's charming
secret? Our young friend's perusal of her ladyship's telegram was
literally prolonged by a momentary daze: what swam between her and
the words, making her see them as through rippled shallow sunshot
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