The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: laughed with almost condemnatory archness, as if it were a reproach
- though she wouldn't insist; and flirted a soiled pocket-
handkerchief at him.
Pemberton's mind was fully made up to take his step the following
week. This would give him time to get an answer to a letter he had
despatched to England. If he did in the event nothing of the sort
- that is if he stayed another year and then went away only for
three months - it was not merely because before the answer to his
letter came (most unsatisfactory when it did arrive) Mr. Moreen
generously counted out to him, and again with the sacrifice to
"form" of a marked man of the world, three hundred francs in
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