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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: horses? Never. Let us attach them to the verandah by a wisp
of straw rope, such as would not have held a person's hat on
that blustering day. And with all these protestations of
hurry, they proved irresponsible like children. Kelmar
himself, shrewd old Russian Jew, with a smirk that seemed
just to have concluded a bargain to its satisfaction,
intrusted himself and us devoutly to that boy. Yet the boy
was patently fallacious; and for that matter a most
unsympathetic urchin, raised apparently on gingerbread. He
was bent on his own pleasure, nothing else; and Kelmar
followed him to his ruin, with the same shrewd smirk. If the
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