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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: hundred pieces or so at a moderate figure? You see, suppose you
entertain an honoured guest, when he goes he leaves his name in
gilt letters on your walls; an infinity of fun and decoration can
be got out of hospitable and festive mottoes; and the doors of
every room can be beautified by the legend of their names. I
really think there is something in the idea, and you might be able
to push it with the brutal and licentious manufacturer, using my
name if necessary, though I should think the name of the god-like
sculptor would be more germane. In case you should get it started,
I should tell you that we should require commas in order to write
the Samoan language, which is full of words written thus: la'u,
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