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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: kidnapping. Morgan wouldn't be taken for a young patrician with a
preceptor - he wasn't smart enough; though he might pass for his
companion's sickly little brother. Now and then he had a five-
franc piece, and except once, when they bought a couple of lovely
neckties, one of which he made Pemberton accept, they laid it out
scientifically in old books. This was sure to be a great day,
always spent on the quays, in a rummage of the dusty boxes that
garnish the parapets. Such occasions helped them to live, for
their books ran low very soon after the beginning of their
acquaintance. Pemberton had a good many in England, but he was
obliged to write to a friend and ask him kindly to get some fellow
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