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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: coals or the daily papers. She took charge of them, at any rate,
in all the rooms, at so much a month, and people were quickly
finding out what it was to make over this strange burden of the
pampered to the widow of a clergyman. The widow, on her side,
dilating on the initiations thus opened up to her, had been
splendid to her young friend, over the way she was made free of the
greatest houses--the way, especially when she did the dinner-
tables, set out so often for twenty, she felt that a single step
more would transform her whole social position. On its being asked
of her then if she circulated only in a sort of tropical solitude,
with the upper servants for picturesque natives, and on her having
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