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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: the other side. How if it was I that did not please? How if
this unseen lover should turn from me with disaffection? And
now I spent hours before the glass, studying and judging my
attractions, and was never weary of changing my dress or
ordering my hair.
When the day came I was long about my toilet; but at last,
with a sort of hopeful desperation, I had to own that I could
do no more, and must now stand or fall by nature. My
occupation ended, I fell a prey to the most sickening
impatience, mingled with alarms; giving ear to the swelling
rumour of the streets, and at each change of sound or
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