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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: We call them very hard terms," said Urbain de Bellegarde.
They had all remained standing rigidly in the middle of the room.
"I think my mother will tell you that she would rather her
daughter should become Soeur Catherine than Mrs. Newman."
But the old lady, with the serenity of supreme power,
let her son make her epigrams for her. She only smiled,
almost sweetly, shaking her head and repeating, "But once,
Mr. Newman; but once!"
Nothing that Newman had ever seen or heard gave him such a sense
of marble hardness as this movement and the tone that accompanied it.
"Could anything compel you?" he asked. "Do you know of anything
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