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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: things and pieced together all sorts of mysteries. There had once
been one--not long before--who, without winking, sent off five over
five different signatures. Perhaps these represented five
different friends who had asked her--all women, just as perhaps now
Mary and Cissy, or one or other of them, were wiring by deputy.
Sometimes she put in too much--too much of her own sense; sometimes
she put in too little; and in either case this often came round to
her afterwards, for she had an extraordinary way of keeping clues.
When she noticed she noticed; that was what it came to. There were
days and days, there were weeks sometimes, of vacancy. This arose
often from Mr. Buckton's devilish and successful subterfuges for
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