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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: mightily vexed. I took it very high with the porter and asked
him by what right he used violence to an honorable Englishwoman
who had lived in the house for thirty years before he was heard of.
Oh, sir, I was very grand, and I brought the man down.
He drew his bolts and let me out, and I promised the cabman something
handsome if he would drive fast. But he was terribly slow;
it seemed as if we should never reach your blessed door.
I am all of a tremble still; it took me five minutes, just now,
to thread my needle."
Newman told her, with a gleeful laugh, that if she chose she
might have a little maid on purpose to thread her needles;
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