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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: pleasures. When they reached the hotel they found that, though
scandalously late, they were in time for all the dinner they were
likely to sit down to. Confusion reigned in the apartments of the
Moreens - very shabby ones this time, but the best in the house -
and before the interrupted service of the table, with objects
displaced almost as if there had been a scuffle and a great wine-
stain from an overturned bottle, Pemberton couldn't blink the fact
that there had been a scene of the last proprietary firmness. The
storm had come - they were all seeking refuge. The hatches were
down, Paula and Amy were invisible - they had never tried the most
casual art upon Pemberton, but he felt they had enough of an eye to
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