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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: had sacrificed themselves. Three or four persons came in;
two of them were elderly gentlemen. Every one was very quiet.
Newman fastened his eyes upon the screen behind the altar.
That was the convent, the real convent, the place where she was.
But he could see nothing; no light came through the crevices.
He got up and approached the partition very gently,
trying to look through. But behind it there was darkness,
with nothing stirring. He went back to his place, and after
that a priest and two altar boys came in and began to say mass.
Newman watched their genuflections and gyrations with a grim,
still enmity; they seemed aids and abettors of Madame de
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