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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Malbone: An Oldport Romance by Thomas Wentworth Higginson: need for such solicitude before.
Except for his genius for keeping his own counsel, every
acquaintance of Malbone's would have divined the meaning of
these reveries. As it was, he was called whimsical and
sentimental, but he was a man of sufficiently assured position
to have whims of his own, and could even treat himself to an
emotion or so, if he saw fit. Besides, he talked well to
anybody on anything, and was admitted to exhibit, for a man of
literary tastes, a good deal of sense. If he had engaged
himself to a handsome schoolmistress, it was his fancy, and he
could afford it. Moreover she was well connected, and had an
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