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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: This young lady relished highly, on occasions, the sense of being alone--
the absence of the whole family and the emptiness of the house.
To-day, apparently, the servants had also gone to church;
there was never a figure at the open windows; behind the house
there was no stout negress in a red turban, lowering the bucket
into the great shingle-hooded well. And the front door of the big,
unguarded home stood open, with the trustfulness of the golden age;
or what is more to the purpose, with that of New England's silvery prime.
Gertrude slowly passed through it, and went from one of the empty
rooms to the other--large, clear-colored rooms, with white wainscots,
ornamented with thin-legged mahogany furniture, and, on the walls,
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