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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Emma by Jane Austen: she mixed with, but here she is with a poor old grandmother,
who has barely enough to live on. If you do not call early it
will be a slight."
The son looked convinced.
"I have heard her speak of the acquaintance," said Emma; "she is
a very elegant young woman."
He agreed to it, but with so quiet a "Yes," as inclined her almost
to doubt his real concurrence; and yet there must be a very distinct
sort of elegance for the fashionable world, if Jane Fairfax could
be thought only ordinarily gifted with it.
"If you were never particularly struck by her manners before,"
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