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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: M. de Bellegarde meditated a moment, as if he had not heard Newman's refusal.
"My mother and I, last evening," he said, "talked over your story.
You will be surprised to learn that we think your little document is--a"--
and he held back his word a moment--"is genuine."
"You forget that with you I am used to surprises!" exclaimed Newman,
with a laugh.
"The very smallest amount of respect that we owe to my father's memory,"
the marquis continued, "makes us desire that he should not be held
up to the world as the author of so--so infernal an attack upon
the reputation of a wife whose only fault was that she had been
submissive to accumulated injury."
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