|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The American by Henry James: They have a great expression here, you know; they call it 'sympathetic.'
Everything is sympathetic--or ought to be. Now Madame de Bellegarde
is about as sympathetic as that mustard-pot. They're a d--
d cold-blooded lot, any way; I felt it awfully at that ball of theirs.
I felt as if I were walking up and down in the Armory, in the Tower
of London! My dear boy, don't think me a vulgar brute for hinting
at it, but you may depend upon it, all they wanted was your money.
I know something about that; I can tell when people want one's money!
Why they stopped wanting yours I don't know; I suppose because
they could get some one else's without working so hard for it.
It isn't worth finding out. It may be that it was not Madame de Cintre
|
