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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: "Yes."
"Well, the A. C. culminated in '45. You remember something of the
society of Norridgeport, the last winter you were there? Abel
Mallory, for instance?"
"Let me think a moment," said Mr. Johnson reflectively. "Really,
it seems like looking back a hundred years. Mallory--wasn't that
the sentimental young man, with wispy hair, a tallowy skin, and
big, sweaty hands, who used to be spouting Carlyle on the `reading
evenings' at Shelldrake's? Yes, to be sure; and there was Hollins,
with his clerical face and infidel talk,--and Pauline Ringtop, who
used to say, `The Beautiful is the Good.' I can still hear her
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