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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: despair: it won for him his wife.
Nearly two years passed before it was possible to marry: two years
of activity, now in London; now at Birkenhead, fitting out ships,
inventing new machinery for new purposes, and dipping into
electrical experiment; now in the ELBA on his first telegraph
cruise between Sardinia and Algiers: a busy and delightful period
of bounding ardour, incessant toil, growing hope and fresh
interests, with behind and through all, the image of his beloved.
A few extracts from his correspondence with his betrothed will give
the note of these truly joyous years. 'My profession gives me all
the excitement and interest I ever hope for, but the sorry jade is
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