| The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: what would become of poor Pemberton? He felt quite enough bound up
with them to figure to his alarm as a dislodged block in the
edifice.
It was Morgan who eventually asked if no supper had been ordered
for him; sitting with him below, later, at the dim delayed meal, in
the presence of a great deal of corded green plush, a plate of
ornamental biscuit and an aloofness marked on the part of the
waiter. Mrs. Moreen had explained that they had been obliged to
secure a room for the visitor out of the house; and Morgan's
consolation - he offered it while Pemberton reflected on the
nastiness of lukewarm sauces - proved to be, largely, that his
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