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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: as Pemberton had seen them depressed he had never seen them crushed
- and communication was therefore rapid. He wrote to the boy to
ascertain the state of his health, but awaited the answer in vain.
He accordingly, after three days, took an abrupt leave of the
opulent youth and, crossing the Channel, alighted at the small
hotel, in the quarter of the Champs Elysees, of which Mrs. Moreen
had given him the address. A deep if dumb dissatisfaction with
this lady and her companions bore him company: they couldn't be
vulgarly honest, but they could live at hotels, in velvety
entresols, amid a smell of burnt pastilles, surrounded by the most
expensive city in Europe. When he had left them in Venice it was
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