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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: thing in the world no one could charge her with it was being the
kind of low barmaid person who rinsed tumblers and bandied slang.
But she forbore as yet to speak; she had not spoken even to Mrs.
Jordan; and the hush that on her lips surrounded the Captain's name
maintained itself as a kind of symbol of the success that, up to
this time, had attended something or other--she couldn't have said
what--that she humoured herself with calling, without words, her
relation with him.
CHAPTER XI
She would have admitted indeed that it consisted of little more
than the fact that his absences, however frequent and however long,
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