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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from House of Mirth by Edith Wharton: "There never is--it's a country one has to find the way to one's
self."
"But I should never have found my way there if you hadn't told
me."
"Ah, there are sign-posts--but one has to know how to read them."
"Well, I have known, I have known!" she cried with a glow of
eagerness. "Whenever I see you, I find myself spelling out a
letter of the sign--and yesterday--last evening at dinner--I
suddenly saw a little way into your republic."
Selden was still looking at her, but with a changed eye. Hitherto
he had found, in her presence and her talk, the aesthetic
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