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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: life.'
'I will not play at pride with such a man as you,' she
answered. 'What do you ask of me? not protestations, I am
sure. What shall I say? I have done much that I cannot
defend and that I would not do again. Can I say more? Yes:
I can say this: I never abused myself with the muddle-headed
fairy tales of politics. I was at least prepared to meet
reprisals. While I was levying war myself - or levying
murder, if you choose the plainer term - I never accused my
adversaries of assassination. I never felt or feigned a
righteous horror, when a price was put upon my life by those
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