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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: nightfall, in the thousands of other words she counted, she
transmitted, in all the stamps she detached and the letters she
weighed and the change she gave, equally unconscious and unerring
in each of these particulars, and not, as the run on the little
office thickened with the afternoon hours, looking up at a single
ugly face in the long sequence, nor really hearing the stupid
questions that she patiently and perfectly answered. All patience
was possible now, all questions were stupid after his, all faces
were ugly. She had been sure she should see the lady again; and
even now she should perhaps, she should probably, see her often.
But for him it was totally different; she should never never see
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