|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wrecker by Stevenson & Osbourne: But there is one more that I daresay you are burning to put to
myself; and that is, what your own name is doing in this place,
cropping up (as it were uncalled-for) on the stern of our poor
ship? If you were not born in Arcadia, you linger in fancy on
its margin; your thoughts are busied with the flutes of antiquity,
with daffodils, and the classic poplar, and the footsteps of the
nymphs, and the elegant and moving aridity of ancient art.
Why dedicate to you a tale of a caste so modern;--full of details
of our barbaric manners and unstable morals;--full of the need
and the lust of money, so that there is scarce a page in which
the dollars do not jingle;--full of the unrest and movement of
|
