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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: corner of the mountains, with not a dozen neighbours, and yet
struggled all the while, like desperate swimmers, in this sea
of falsities and contradictions. Wherever a man is, there
will be a lie.
TOILS AND PLEASURES
I MUST try to convey some notion of our life, of how the days
passed and what pleasure we took in them, of what there was
to do and how we set about doing it, in our mountain
hermitage. The house, after we had repaired the worst of the
damages, and filled in some of the doors and windows with
white cotton cloth, became a healthy and a pleasant dwelling-
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