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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: "Don't say that; I don't deserve it; it scorches me," he protested
with eyes suddenly grave and glowing. "The 'one' is of course
one's self, one's conscience, one's idea, the singleness of one's
aim. I think of that pure spirit as a man thinks of a woman he has
in some detested hour of his youth loved and forsaken. She haunts
him with reproachful eyes, she lives for ever before him. As an
artist, you know, I've married for money." Paul stared and even
blushed a little, confounded by this avowal; whereupon his host,
observing the expression of his face, dropped a quick laugh and
pursued: "You don't follow my figure. I'm not speaking of my dear
wife, who had a small fortune - which, however, was not my bribe.
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