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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: narrowing his eyelids. "Open your mouth and shut your eyes!
Leave it to me, and I'll put you through. It's a matter of national
pride with me that all Englishmen should have a good time;
and as I have had considerable practice, I have learned to minister
to their wants. I find they generally want the right thing.
So just please to consider yourselves my property; and if anyone
should try to appropriate you, please to say, 'Hands off;
too late for the market.' But let's see," continued the American,
in his slow, humorous voice, with a distinctness of utterance
which appeared to his visitors to be part of a humorous intention--
a strangely leisurely, speculative voice for a man evidently
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