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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: total experience that is quite my own. The others were shared, but
this is incommunicable. I feel that now, I'm bound to say, even in
thus roughly evoking the occasion, and it takes something from my
pride of clearness. However, I shall perhaps be as clear as is
absolutely needful if I remark that our young lady was too much
given up to her own intensity of observation to be sensible of
mine. It was plainly not the question of her marriage that had
brought her back. I greatly enjoyed this discovery and was sure
that had that question alone been involved she would have stirred
no step. In this case doubtless Gravener would, in spite of the
House of Commons, have found means to rejoin her. It afterwards
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