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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: card up his sleeve and not floated it out in the current of his
chatter and the luxury of their leisure, was one of those
incalculable strokes by which he could still affect her; the kind
of thing that reminded her of the latent force that had ejected the
drunken soldier--an example of the profundity of which his
promotion was the proof. She listened a while in silence, on this
occasion, to the wafted strains of the music; she took it in as she
had not quite done before that her future was now constituted. Mr.
Mudge was distinctly her fate; yet at this moment she turned her
face quite away from him, showing him so long a mere quarter of her
cheek that she at last again heard his voice. He couldn't see a
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