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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: "He is afraid of me. I go on painting badly, as you say,
because I want to learn. I like it, at any rate.
And I like being here; it is a place to come to, every day;
it is better than sitting in a little dark, damp room, on a court,
or selling buttons and whalebones over a counter."
"Of course it is much more amusing," said Newman.
"But for a poor girl isn't it rather an expensive amusement?"
"Oh, I am very wrong, there is no doubt about that,"
said Mademoiselle Noemie. "But rather than earn my living
as same girls do--toiling with a needle, in little black holes,
out of the world--I would throw myself into the Seine."
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