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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 what IS your grudge?" Newman asked.
Mrs. Bread dropped her eyes and hesitated.
"If I were a foreigner, sir, I should make less of
telling you; it comes harder to a decent Englishwoman.
But I sometimes think I have picked up too many foreign ways.
What I was telling you belongs to a time when I was much
younger and very different looking to what I am now.
I had a very high color, sir, if you can believe it, indeed I
was a very smart lass. My lady was younger, too, and the late
marquis was youngest of all--I mean in the way he went on, sir;
he had a very high spirit; he was a magnificent man.
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