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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: had kept silence, I now felt sure, because gossip was neither her habit
nor to her liking. Possibly she may have also felt that her displeasure
had been too manifest; at any rate, she spoke out of her silence in cold,
yet rich, symmetrical tones.
"This, I understand, is your first visit to Kings Port?"
I told her that it was.
She laid down her exquisite embroidery. "It has been thought a place
worth seeing. There is no town of such historic interest at the North."
Standing by my chair, I assured her that I did not think there could be.
"I heard you allude to my half-sister-in-law, Mrs. Weguelin St. Michael.
It was at the house where she now lives that the famous Miss Beaufain (as
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