• Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.

  Henry James
  American author 1843-1916
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1. experience
2. five-pound
3. cigarette
4. friendly
5. impulse

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Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way. by : Henry James

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