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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson: me; he is an old man and in bad health and spirits; and I could
neither leave him alone, nor could we talk freely before him. If
he should be here when you offer your visit, you will understand if
I have to say no, and put you off.
I quite understand your not caring to refer to things of private
knowledge. What still puzzles me is how you ('in the witness box'
- ha! I like the phrase) should have made your argument actually
hinge on a contention which the facts answered.
I am pleased to hear of the correctness of my guess. It is then as
I supposed; you are of the school of the generous and not the
sullen pessimists; and I can feel with you. I used myself to rage
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