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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: and even Mr. van der Luyden and Mr. Selfridge
Merry, installed in the honorary arm-chairs tacitly
reserved for them, paused to listen to the younger man's
philippic.
Never had Lefferts so abounded in the sentiments
that adorn Christian manhood and exalt the sanctity of
the home. Indignation lent him a scathing eloquence,
and it was clear that if others had followed his example,
and acted as he talked, society would never have
been weak enough to receive a foreign upstart like
Beaufort--no, sir, not even if he'd married a van der
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