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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: Newman quite failed to recognize the young Frenchman's power to wound
his feelings, and he had now no sense of escaping or coming off easily.
He did not thank his companion even with a glance. "My eyes
are open, though," he said, "so far as that you have practically told
me that your family and your friends will turn up their noses at me.
I have never thought much about the reasons that make it proper for
people to turn up their noses, and so I can only decide the question
off-hand. Looking at it in that way I can't see anything in it.
I simply think, if you want to know, that I'm as good as the best.
Who the best are, I don't pretend to say. I have never thought much
about that either. To tell the truth, I have always had rather
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