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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Lesson of the Master by Henry James: practical!" St. George said as he saw his visitor look the place
over. "Isn't it a good big cage for going round and round? My
wife invented it and she locks me up here every morning."
Our young man breathed - by way of tribute - with a certain
oppression. "You don't miss a window - a place to look out?"
"I did at first awfully; but her calculation was just. It saves
time, it has saved me many months in these ten years. Here I
stand, under the eye of day - in London of course, very often, it's
rather a bleared old eye - walled in to my trade. I can't get away
- so the room's a fine lesson in concentration. I've learnt the
lesson, I think; look at that big bundle of proof and acknowledge
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