|
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: however, when they came to speak, the parts were found to be
reversed.
'I assure you,' said the elder gentleman, 'I not only heard
the slamming of a door, but the sound of very guarded
footsteps.'
'Your highness was certainly deceived,' replied the other.
'I am endowed with the acutest hearing, and I can swear that
not a mouse has rustled.' Yet the pallor and contraction of
his features were in total discord with the tenor of his
words.
His highness (whom, of course, I readily divined to be Prince
|
