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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson: strong health or enjoys a vacant mind, would rather creep
into a cool corner of a house and sit upon the chairs of
civilization. About that time, the sharp stones, the planks,
the upturned boxes of Silverado, began to grow irksome to my
body; I set out on that hopeless, never-ending quest for a
more comfortable posture; I would be fevered and weary of the
staring sun; and just then he would begin courteously to
withdraw his countenance, the shadows lengthened, the
aromatic airs awoke, and an indescribable but happy change
announced the coming of the night.
The hours of evening, when we were once curtained in the
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