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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: attention.
"Well, well!" he cried; "here, indeed, is a head extremely well done.
You'll be another Ginevra."
The master then went from easel to easel, scolding, flattering,
jesting, and making, as usual, his jests more dreaded than his
reprimands. Ginevra had not obeyed the professor's order, but remained
at her post, firmly resolved not to quit it. She took a sheet of paper
and began to sketch in sepia the head of the hidden man. A work done
under the impulse of an emotion has always a stamp of its own. The
faculty of giving to representations of nature or of thought their
true coloring constitutes genius, and often, in this respect, passion
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