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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: coffee - they had these articles prepared in perfection - but they
knew recipes for a hundred other dishes. They overflowed with
music and song, were always humming and catching each other up, and
had a sort of professional acquaintance with Continental cities.
They talked of "good places" as if they had been pickpockets or
strolling players. They had at Nice a villa, a carriage, a piano
and a banjo, and they went to official parties. They were a
perfect calendar of the "days" of their friends, which Pemberton
knew them, when they were indisposed, to get out of bed to go to,
and which made the week larger than life when Mrs. Moreen talked of
them with Paula and Amy. Their initiations gave their new inmate
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