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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson: the native people, studying everywhere their dances and their
language, and conforming, always with pleasure, to their rustic
etiquette. Just as the ball at Alt Aussee was designed for the
taste of Joseph, the parting feast at Attadale was ordered in every
particular to the taste of Murdoch the Keeper. Fleeming was not
one of the common, so-called gentlemen, who take the tricks of
their own coterie to be eternal principles of taste. He was aware,
on the other hand, that rustic people dwelling in their own places,
follow ancient rules with fastidious precision, and are easily
shocked and embarrassed by what (if they used the word) they would
have to call the vulgarity of visitors from town. And he, who was
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