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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: sounded twice his merry horn, deeds of blood would be wrought, and
Murder walk abroad with silent feet.
Hardly had he finished this awful oath when, from the red-tiled
roof of a distant homestead, a cock crew. He laughed a long, low,
bitter laugh, and waited. Hour after hour he waited, but the cock,
for some strange reason, did not crow again. Finally, at half-past
seven, the arrival of the housemaids made him give up his fearful
vigil, and he stalked back to his room, thinking of his vain hope
and baffled purpose. There he consulted several books of ancient
chivalry, of which he was exceedingly fond, and found that, on
every occasion on which his oath had been used, Chanticleer had
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