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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson: have many a time wished I had been slain at the battle where
they took me." (3) This is a flourish, if you will, but it
is something more. His spirit would sometimes rise up in a
fine anger against the petty desires and contrarieties of
life. He would compare his own condition with the quiet and
dignified estate of the dead; and aspire to lie among his
comrades on the field of Agincourt, as the Psalmist prayed to
have the wings of a dove and dwell in the uttermost parts of
the sea. But such high thoughts came to Charles only in a
flash.
(1) M. Champollion-Figeac gives many in his editions of
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