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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: a dozen of pencils, or a six-bladed knife, or a quarter of a
hundred quills,' at any of the public sale-rooms. He was
noted for cheap purchases, and for exceeding the legal tender
in halfpence. He haunted 'the darkest and remotest corner of
the Theatre Gallery.' He was to be seen issuing from 'aerial
lodging-houses.' Withal, says mine author, 'there were many
good points about him: he paid his landlady's bill, read his
Bible, went twice to church on Sunday, seldom swore, was not
often tipsy, and bought the LAPSUS LINGUAE.'
The MEDICAL, again, 'wore a white greatcoat, and consequently
talked loud' - (there is something very delicious in that
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