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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: Nothing that Newman had ever seen or heard gave him such a sense
of marble hardness as this movement and the tone that accompanied it.
"Could anything compel you?" he asked. "Do you know of anything
that would force you?"
"This language, sir," said the marquis, "addressed to people
in bereavement and grief is beyond all qualification."
"In most cases," Newman answered, "your objection would have
some weight, even admitting that Madame de Cintre's present intentions
make time precious. But I have thought of what you speak of,
and I have come here to-day without scruple simply because I
consider your brother and you two very different parties.
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