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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen: In a year, Villiers, I was a ruined man, in body and soul--in
body and soul."
"But your property, Herbert? You had land in Dorset."
"I sold it all; the fields and woods, the dear old
house--everything."
"And the money?"
"She took it all from me."
"And then left you?"
"Yes; she disappeared one night. I don't know where
she went, but I am sure if I saw her again it would kill me.
The rest of my story is of no interest; sordid misery, that is
The Great God Pan | 
