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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrong Box by Stevenson & Osbourne: Holloway; but from that formative experience he returned home to
make a new will, and consign his daughter and her fortune to the
lecturer. Joseph had a kindly disposition; and yet it was not
without reluctance that he accepted this new responsibility,
advertised for a nurse, and purchased a second-hand perambulator.
Morris and John he made more readily welcome; not so much because
of the tie of consanguinity as because the leather business (in
which he hastened to invest their fortune of thirty thousand
pounds) had recently exhibited inexplicable symptoms of decline.
A young but capable Scot was chosen as manager to the enterprise,
and the cares of business never again afflicted Joseph Finsbury.
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