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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: an affectation of indifference; yet even with this circumspection
he took a fresh satisfaction in her not having pretended to await
his arrival with composure. She smiled as radiantly as if she
wished to make him hurry, and as soon as he came within earshot she
broke out in her voice of joy: "He's here - he's here - he's
coming back in a moment!"
"Ah your father?" Paul returned as she offered him her hand.
"Oh dear no, this isn't in my poor father's line. I mean Mr. St.
George. He has just left me to speak to some one - he's coming
back. It's he who brought me - wasn't it charming?"
"Ah that gives him a pull over me - I couldn't have 'brought' you,
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