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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: about the young woman, Janet M'Clour?'
'Weel, what about her? what do I ken?' cries Haddo.
'M'Brair, ye daft auld wife, I tell ye as true's truth, I
never meddled her. It was just daffing, I tell ye: daffing,
and nae mair: a piece of fun, like! I'm no denying but what
I'm fond of fun, sma' blame to me! But for onything sarious
- hout, man, it might come to a deposeetion! I'll sweir it
to ye. Where's a Bible, till you hear me sweir?'
'There is nae Bible in your study,' said M'Brair severely.
And Haddo, after a few distracted turns, was constrained to
accept the fact.
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