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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: He found Madame de Bellegarde promptly, seated in one of the quiet
corners of which she had spoken, while before her, in the alley,
her little girl, attended by the footman and the lap-dog, walked
up and down as if she were taking a lesson in deportment.
Newman sat down beside the mamma, and she talked a great deal,
apparently with the design of convincing him that--if he would
only see it--poor dear Claire did not belong to the most
fascinating type of woman. She was too tall and thin, too stiff
and cold; her mouth was too wide and her nose too narrow.
She had no dimples anywhere. And then she was eccentric,
eccentric in cold blood; she was an Anglaise, after all.
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