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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: .' The speaker pushed away his plate, and rose from table.
'Follow me,' said he, 'follow me. My mood is on; I must have
air, I must behold the plain of battle.'
So saying, he led the way hurriedly to the top flat of the
mansion, and thence, by ladder and trap, to a certain leaded
platform, sheltered at one end by a great stalk of chimneys
and occupying the actual summit of the roof. On both sides,
it bordered, without parapet or rail, on the incline of
slates; and, northward above all, commanded an extensive view
of housetops, and rising through the smoke, the distant
spires of churches.
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