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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: to my aid when all was against me. Though I am myself a very
humble person, my family commands great interest; and I do
not think you will repent this handsome action.'
Challoner flushed with pleasure.
'I imagine that, perhaps, a consulship,' she added, her eyes
dwelling on him with a judicial admiration, 'a consulship in
some great town or capital - or else - But we waste time; let
us set about the work of my delivery.'
She took his arm with a frank confidence that went to his
heart; and once more laying by all serious thoughts, she
entertained him, as they crossed the park, with her agreeable
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