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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: who was doing so much more than he had sworn, failed in the
letter of his priestly oath - he, who was so much a better
man than either you or me, who did what we have never dreamed
of daring - he too tasted of our common frailty. 'O, Iago,
the pity of it!' The least tender should be moved to tears;
the most incredulous to prayer. And all that you could do
was to pen your letter to the Reverend H. B. Gage!
Is it growing at all clear to you what a picture you have
drawn of your own heart? I will try yet once again to make
it clearer. You had a father: suppose this tale were about
him, and some informant brought it to you, proof in hand: I
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