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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson: to save the ankles of your messengers."
Mr. Henry smiled. "But I am grieved about your ankle," said he,
the next moment, with a proper gravity.
"And observe," I continued, "I give you this advice upon
consideration; and yet my heart was touched for the woman in the
beginning."
"Why, there it is, you see!" said Mr. Henry. "And you are to
remember that I knew her once a very decent lass. Besides which,
although I speak little of my family, I think much of its repute."
And with that he broke up the talk, which was the first we had
together in such confidence. But the same afternoon I had the
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