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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: and to reflect that it was a melancholy place of residence.
"It looks," said Newman to himself--and I give the comparison
for what it is worth--"like a Chinese penitentiary."
At last the door was opened by a servant whom he remembered
to have seen in the Rue de l'Universite. The man's dull face
brightened as he perceived our hero, for Newman, for indefinable
reasons, enjoyed the confidence of the liveried gentry.
The footman led the way across a great central vestibule,
with a pyramid of plants in tubs in the middle of glass doors
all around, to what appeared to be the principal drawing-room
of the chateau. Newman crossed the threshold of a room
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