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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Coxon Fund by Henry James: enquiry proved to me the problem had already caught her by the
skirt. She would have help however, the same help I myself had
once had, in resisting its tendency to make one cross.
"What help do you mean?"
"That of the member for Clockborough."
She stared, smiled, then returned: "Why my idea has been to help
HIM!"
She HAD helped him--I had his own word for it that at Clockborough
her bedevilment of the voters had really put him in. She would do
so doubtless again and again, though I heard the very next month
that this fine faculty had undergone a temporary eclipse. News of
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