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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: hearing each other, and they stood there for some moments in silence.
The young girl looked at her companion, observing him attentively,
but covertly, as women, even when very young, know how to do.
Lord Lambeth repaid observation; tall, straight, and strong,
he was handsome as certain young Englishmen, and certain young
Englishmen almost alone, are handsome; with a perfect finish
of feature and a look of intellectual repose and gentle good temper
which seemed somehow to be consequent upon his well-cut nose and chin.
And to speak of Lord Lambeth's expression of intellectual repose
is not simply a civil way of saying that he looked stupid.
He was evidently not a young man of an irritable imagination;
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