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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: just as there would have been heartlessness in leaving him alone
with them. Now that the pair had such perceptions in common it was
useless for them to pretend they didn't judge such people; but the
very judgement and the exchange of perceptions created another tie.
Morgan had never been so interesting as now that he himself was
made plainer by the sidelight of these confidences. What came out
in it most was the small fine passion of his pride. He had plenty
of that, Pemberton felt - so much that one might perhaps wisely
wish for it some early bruises. He would have liked his people to
have a spirit and had waked up to the sense of their perpetually
eating humble-pie. His mother would consume any amount, and his
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