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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: studio all evening.'
And he turned again into the street and walked slowly homeward. A
hairdresser's window caught his attention, and he stared long and
earnestly at the proud, high--born, waxen lady in evening dress,
who circulated in the centre of the show. The artist woke in him,
in spite of his troubles.
'It is all very well to run down the men who make these things,'
he cried, 'but there's a something--there's a haughty,
indefinable something about that figure. It's what I tried for in
my "Empress Eugenie",' he added, with a sigh.
And he went home reflecting on the quality. 'They don't teach you
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