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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: extraordinary ones into her silences. Pen in hand, this way, I
live the time over, and it brings back the oddest sense of my
having been, both for months and in spite of myself, a kind of
coerced spectator. All my life had taken refuge in my eyes, which
the procession of events appeared to have committed itself to keep
astare. There were days when I thought of writing to Hugh Vereker
and simply throwing myself on his charity. But I felt more deeply
that I hadn't fallen quite so low - besides which, quite properly,
he would send me about my business. Mrs. Erme's death brought
Corvick straight home, and within the month he was united "very
quietly" - as quietly, I seemed to make out, as he meant in his
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