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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: fled in whitening surges; the dust towered into the air along
the road and dispersed like the smoke of battle. It was
clear in our teeth from the first, and for all the windings
of the road it managed to keep clear in our teeth until the
end.
For some two miles we rattled through the valley, skirting
the eastern foothills; then we struck off to the right,
through haugh-land, and presently, crossing a dry water-
course, entered the Toll road, or, to be more local, entered
on "the grade." The road mounts the near shoulder of Mount
Saint Helena, bound northward into Lake County. In one place
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