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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: employment so hateful to the inhabitants, must have run the
hazard of his life. But this were to misunderstand. He came
franked by the laird and the clergyman; he was the King's
officer; the work was `opened with prayer by the Rev. Walter
Trail, minister of the parish'; God and the King had decided
it, and the people of these pious islands bowed their heads.
There landed, indeed, in North Ronaldsay, during the last
decade of the eighteenth century, a traveller whose life seems
really to have been imperilled. A very little man of a
swarthy complexion, he came ashore, exhausted and unshaved,
from a long boat passage, and lay down to sleep in the home of
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