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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: Scotsmen, who was embarked on the same experiment as herself and had
hitherto been less neglectful. She was in quest of two o'clock; and
when she learned it was already seven on the shores of Clyde, she
lifted up her voice and cried 'Gravy!' I had not heard this innocent
expletive since I was a young child; and I suppose it must have been
the same with the other Scotsmen present, for we all laughed our
fill.
Last but not least, I come to my excellent friend Mr. Jones. It
would be difficult to say whether I was his right-hand man, or he
mine, during the voyage. Thus at table I carved, while he only
scooped gravy; but at our concerts, of which more anon, he was the
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