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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells: been a photographer or a portrait painter. And his voice was
harsh, and the bishop was particularly sensitive to voices.
He began by understanding far too much of the bishop's illness,
and he insisted on various familiarities with the bishop's heart
and tongue and eye and knee that ruffled the bishop's soul.
"Brighton-Pomfrey talked of neurasthenia?" he asked. "That was
his diagnosis," said the bishop. "Neurasthenia," said the young
man as though he despised the word.
The bishop went on buttoning up his coat.
"You don't of course want to break your vows about drinking and
smoking," said the young man with the very faintest suggestion of
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