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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lady Baltimore by Owen Wister: it was gone.
"That shook Daddy Ben up a good deal."
"Having his grandson do it, do you mean?"
"Oh, he's used to his grandson! Grandsons in that race might just as well
be dogs for all they know or care about their progenitors. Yet Daddy Ben
spent his savings on educating Charles Cotesworth and two more--but not
one of them will give the old man a house to-day. If ever I have a home--"
John stopped himself, and our silence was no longer easy; our unspoken
thoughts looked out of our eyes so that they could not meet. Yet no one,
unless directly invited by him, had the right to say to hint what I was
thinking, except some near relative. Therefore, to relieve this silence
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