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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: therefore must have been commensurate. But even granting
that the prize might be great, Newman could not resist
a movement of admiration for his companion's intrepidity.
She was throwing away with one hand, whatever she might intend
to do with the other, a very handsome sum of money.
"Are you joking," he said, "or are you serious?"
"Oh, serious!" cried Mademoiselle Noemie, but with her extraordinary smile.
"I know very little about pictures or now they are painted.
If you can't do all that, of course you can't. Do what you can, then."
"It will be very bad," said Mademoiselle Noemie.
"Oh," said Newman, laughing, "if you are determined it shall be bad,
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