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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: several others of Mrs. Westgate's ex-pensioners--gentlemen who,
as she said, had made, in New York, a clubhouse of her drawing room--
no tidings were to be obtained; but Lord Lambeth was certainly
attentive enough to make up for the accidental absences,
the short memories, all the other irregularities of everyone else.
He drove them in the park, he took them to visit private collections
of pictures, and, having a house of his own, invited them to dinner.
Mrs. Westgate, following the fashion of many of her compatriots,
caused herself and her sister to be presented at the English
court by her diplomatic representative--for it was in this
manner that she alluded to the American minister to England,
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