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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: then she turned away. But almost immediately she corrected this movement,
and stood still, facing him. He took off his hat and wiped his forehead
as he approached. Then he put on his hat again and held out his hand.
His hat being removed, you would have perceived that his forehead was
very large and smooth, and his hair abundant but rather colorless.
His nose was too large, and his mouth and eyes were too small; but for
all this he was, as I have said, a young man of striking appearance.
The expression of his little clean-colored blue eyes was irresistibly
gentle and serious; he looked, as the phrase is, as good as gold.
The young girl, standing in the garden path, glanced, as he came up,
at his thread gloves.
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