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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson: Fere put us talking of the reservists.
'Reservery,' said he, 'seems a pretty mean way to spend ones autumn
holiday.'
'About as mean,' returned I dejectedly, 'as canoeing.'
'These gentlemen travel for their pleasure?' asked the landlady,
with unconscious irony.
It was too much. The scales fell from our eyes. Another wet day,
it was determined, and we put the boats into the train.
The weather took the hint. That was our last wetting. The
afternoon faired up: grand clouds still voyaged in the sky, but
now singly, and with a depth of blue around their path; and a
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