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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: back to his dear Dublin; but a few months hence I am to name
any evening and he will come over from Ireland, on purpose.
That's what I call gallantry!"
Shortly after this Madame de Bellegarde walked away with her little girl.
Newman sat in his place; the time seemed terribly long.
He felt how fiercely his quarter of an hour in the convent chapel
had raked over the glowing coals of his resentment. Madame de
Bellegarde kept him waiting, but she proved as good as her word.
At last she reappeared at the end of the path, with her little
girl and her footman; beside her slowly walked her husband,
with his mother on his arm. They were a long time advancing,
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