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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: and disgust, and I will leave no stone unturned to crush your
vile conspiracy.'
'My dear fellow,' replied Zero, with an air of some
complacency, 'I am well accustomed to these human weaknesses.
Disgust? I have felt it myself; it speedily wears off. I
think none the worse, I think the more of you, for this
engaging frankness. And in the meanwhile, what are you to
do? You find yourself, if I interpret rightly, in very much
the same situation as Charles the Second (possibly the least
degraded of your British sovereigns) when he was taken into
the confidence of the thief. To denounce me, is out of the
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