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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from In the Cage by Henry James: paling and the patchy lamplight and the rumbling cabs and 'buses.
A strange emotion had come to her, and she felt indeed excitement
within excitement; above all a conscious joy in testing him with
chances he didn't take. She had an intense desire he should know
the type she really conformed to without her doing anything so low
as tell him, and he had surely begun to know it from the moment he
didn't seize the opportunities into which a common man would
promptly have blundered. These were on the mere awkward surface,
and THEIR relation was beautiful behind and below them. She had
questioned so little on the way what they might be doing that as
soon as they were seated she took straight hold of it. Her hours,
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