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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: the very utterance of the truth of God, but that falls to be
the symbol of a meaningless and empty slavery; such is the
yoke that many young men joyfully assume, and under whose
dead weight they live to suffer worse than death.
'It is not that I was patient. I have begged to be released;
but I knew too much, and I was still refused. I have fled;
ay, and for the time successfully. I reached Paris. I found
a lodging in the Rue St. Jacques, almost opposite the Val de
Grace. My room was mean and bare, but the sun looked into it
towards evening; it commanded a peep of a green garden; a
bird hung by a neighbour's window and made the morning
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