Which point of view does the narrator use in the passage?
Osgood would never be a man of letters like Fields, a litterateur, and so hesitated to compare ideas of True Literature. "Why would Augustus Manning threaten such a measure? It's extortion, that's what," he said indignantly.
At this Fields smiled to himself, thinking of how much there still was to teach Osgood.
From Matthew Pearl, The Dante Club. Copyright 2003 by Matthew Pearl