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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: "But that's a very correct copy--except, of course, the handwriting.
I am keeping the original to show some one else."
M. de Bellegarde at last looked up, and his eyes were still very eager.
"To whom do you mean to show it?"
"Well, I'm thinking of beginning with the duchess," said Newman;
"that stout lady I saw at your ball. She asked me to come and see her,
you know. I thought at the moment I shouldn't have much to say to her;
but my little document will give us something to talk about."
"You had better keep it, my son," said Madame de Bellegarde.
"By all means," said Newman; "keep it and show it to your mother
when you get home."
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