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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: remorse; he turned the father out indeed, but he offered, in
compensation, to charge himself with one of the sons: and
Harry, the fifth child and already sickly, was chosen to be left
behind. He made himself useful in the office; picked up the
scattered rudiments of an education; read right and left;
attended and debated at the Young Men's Christian
Association; and in all his early years, was the model for a
good story-book. His landlady's daughter was his bane. He
showed me her photograph; she was a big, handsome, dashing,
dressy, vulgar hussy, without character, without tenderness,
without mind, and (as the result proved) without virtue. The
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