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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: bombs at cost price. But he had lost all faith in explosives, and
Herr Winckelkopf himself acknowledged that everything is so
adulterated nowadays, that even dynamite can hardly be got in a
pure condition. The little German, however, while admitting that
something must have gone wrong with the machinery, was not without
hope that the clock might still go off, and instanced the case of a
barometer that he had once sent to the military Governor at Odessa,
which, though timed to explode in ten days, had not done so for
something like three months. It was quite true that when it did go
off, it merely succeeded in blowing a housemaid to atoms, the
Governor having gone out of town six weeks before, but at least it
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