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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: of Colonel Abner Coltrane's black frock coat.
Goree leaned heavily against Coltrane, but he did not
fall. The horses kept pace, side by side, and the Colonel's
arm kept him steady. The little white houses of Laurel
shone through the trees, half a mile away. Goree reached
out one hand and groped until it rested upon Coltrane's
fingers, which held his bridle.
"Good friend," he said, and that was all.
Thus did Yancey Goree, as be rode past his old home,
make, considering all things, the best showing that was
in his power.
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