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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: Lord Lambeth was in high good humor; he was constantly laughing;
he enjoyed what he would have called the lark. Willie Woodley kept
looking at the ceilings and tapping the walls with the knuckle
of a pearl-gray glove; and Mrs. Westgate, asking at frequent
intervals to be allowed to sit down and wait till they came back,
was as frequently informed that they would never come back.
To a great many of Bessie's questions--chiefly on collateral
points of English history--the ancient warder was naturally
unable to reply; whereupon she always appealed to Lord Lambeth.
But his lordship was very ignorant. He declared that he knew nothing
about that sort of thing, and he seemed greatly diverted at being
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