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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Virginibus Puerisque by Robert Louis Stevenson: is not generous enough; and they pass those hours in a sort of
coma, which are not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold-
mill. When they do not require to go to the office, when they
are not hungry and have no mind to drink, the whole breathing
world is a blank to them. If they have to wait an hour or so
for a train, they fall into a stupid trance with their eyes
open. To see them, you would suppose there was nothing to
look at and no one to speak with; you would imagine they were
paralysed or alienated; and yet very possibly they are hard
workers in their own way, and have good eyesight for a flaw in
a deed or a turn of the market. They have been to school and
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