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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeanette Duncan: rememberance, and he told me one after the other idyllic little
stories of the old professor and madame. Madame and the omelet--
madame and the melon--M. Vibois and the maire; I sat charmed. So
long as we remained in France his humour was like this, delicate and
expansive, but an accidental allusion led us across the Channel when
he changed. He had no little stories of the time he spent in
England. Instead he let himself go in generalizations, aimed, for
they had a distinct animus, at English institutions and character,
particularly as these appear in English society. I could not
believe, from the little I had seen of him, that his experience of
English society of any degree had been intimate; what he said had
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