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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: and ready to prove himself of sterling ability. Sharply as he was
capable at times of analysing, as he called it, his life, there
were happy hours when he remained, as he also called it - and as
the name, really, of their right ideal - "jolly" superficial; the
proof of which was his fundamental assumption that he should
presently go to Oxford, to Pemberton's college, and, aided and
abetted by Pemberton, do the most wonderful things. It depressed
the young man to see how little in such a project he took account
of ways and means: in other connexions he mostly kept to the
measure. Pemberton tried to imagine the Moreens at Oxford and
fortunately failed; yet unless they were to adopt it as a residence
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