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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: He never smoked. He had been assured--such things are said--
that cigars were excellent for the health, and he was quite
capable of believing it; but he knew as little about tobacco as
about homeopathy. He had a very well-formed head, with a shapely,
symmetrical balance of the frontal and the occipital development,
and a good deal of straight, rather dry brown hair.
His complexion was brown, and his nose had a bold well-marked arch.
His eye was of a clear, cold gray, and save for a rather
abundant mustache he was clean-shaved. He had the flat jaw
and sinewy neck which are frequent in the American type;
but the traces of national origin are a matter of expression even
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