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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: The father, an old, cheery, small piece of man-hood, could do
everything connected with tinwork from one end of the process to the
other, use almost every carpenter's tool, and make picture frames to
boot. 'I sat down with silver plate every Sunday,' said he, 'and
pictures on the wall. I have made enough money to be rolling in my
carriage. But, sir,' looking at me unsteadily with his bright rheumy
eyes, 'I was troubled with a drunken wife.' He took a hostile view
of matrimony in consequence. 'It's an old saying,' he remarked:
'God made 'em, and the devil he mixed 'em.'
I think he was justified by his experience. It was a dreary story.
He would bring home three pounds on Saturday, and on Monday all the
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