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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: friend was struck with the smaller difference this now made: it
had counted otherwise at the time when, much more as a friend of
her mother's, the bereaved lady, without a penny of provision and
with stopgaps, like their own, all gone, had, across the sordid
landing on which the opposite doors of the pair of scared miseries
opened and to which they were bewilderedly bolted, borrowed coals
and umbrellas that were repaid in potatoes and postage-stamps. It
had been a questionable help, at that time, to ladies submerged,
floundering, panting, swimming for their lives, that they were
ladies; but such an advantage could come up again in proportion as
others vanished, and it had grown very great by the time it was the
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