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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Beauty and The Beast by Bayard Taylor: "Never mind! I've no right to think hard of it. In a week we'll
have finished our haying, and then it's a fortnight to wheat; but,
for that matter, Harry and I can manage the wheat by ourselves.
You may take a month, two months, if any thing comes of it. Under
a month I don't mean that you shall come back. I'll give you
twenty dollars for a start; if you want more you must earn it on
the road, any way you please. And, mark you, Jacob! since you
ARE poor, don't let anybody suppose you are rich. For my part,
I shall not expect you to buy Whitney's place; all I ask is that
you'll tell me, fair and square, just what things and what people
you've got acquainted with. Get to bed now--the matter's settled;
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