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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: concessions?'
'Young lady,' answered the doctor, 'I both could and did; and
you will live to thank me for that baseness. You have a
spirit, Asenath, that it pleases me to recognise. But we
waste time. Mr. Fonblanque's estate reverts, as you
doubtless imagine, to the Church; but some part of it has
been reserved for him who is to marry the family; and that
person, I should perhaps tell you without more delay, is no
other than myself.'
At this odious proposal my mother and I cried out aloud, and
clung together like lost souls.
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