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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic: He put his hands in his pockets, and with rounded shoulders
began slowly pacing the room. After a turn or two he came
to the desk, and leaned against it.
"I doubt if it's worth while going into that," he said,
in the solemn tone of one who feels that an irrevocable thing
is being uttered. She waited to hear more, apparently.
"I think I shall go away--give up the ministry," he added.
Sister Soulsby's eyes revealed no such shock of consternation
as he, unconsciously, had looked for. They remained quite calm;
and when she spoke, they deepened, to fit her speech,
with what he read to be a gaze of affectionate melancholy--
The Damnation of Theron Ware |
