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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: other establishment just thereabouts. She was quite aware that
they couldn't be, in so huddled a hole, particularly quick; but she
found her account in the slowness--she certainly could bear it if
HE could. The great pang was that just thereabouts post-offices
were so awfully thick. She was always seeing him in imagination in
other places and with other girls. But she would defy any other
girl to follow him as she followed. And though they weren't, for
so many reasons, quick at Cocker's, she could hurry for him when,
through an intimation light as air, she gathered that he was
pressed.
When hurry was, better still, impossible, it was because of the
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