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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: themselves beside his mouth might have made it appear at a first
glance that he was smiling. I have said that his excitement was
an intenser deliberateness, and now he looked grimly deliberate.
"It seems very much as if you had interfered, marquis,"
he said slowly. "I thought you said you wouldn't interfere.
I know you don't like me; but that doesn't make any difference.
I thought you promised me you wouldn't interfere.
I thought you swore on your honor that you wouldn't interfere.
Don't you remember, marquis?"
The marquis lifted his eyebrows; but he was apparently determined to be
even more urbane than usual. He rested his two hands upon the back of his
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