|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: vigil of the day. Their meals are scanty, but even of these they
eat sparingly; and though each is allowed a small carafe of wine,
many refrain from this indulgence. Without doubt, the most of
mankind grossly overeat themselves; our meals serve not only for
support, but as a hearty and natural diversion from the labour of
life. Yet, though excess may be hurtful, I should have thought
this Trappist regimen defective. And I am astonished, as I look
back, at the freshness of face and cheerfulness of manner of all
whom I beheld. A happier nor a healthier company I should scarce
suppose that I have ever seen. As a matter of fact, on this bleak
upland, and with the incessant occupation of the monks, life is of
|
