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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from St. Ives by Robert Louis Stevenson: 'My dear friend,' said I, 'for God's sake do not embarrass me with
more alms. I loved to receive them from that hand, so long as they
were needed; but they are so no more, and whatever else I may lack
- and I lack everything - it is not money.' I pulled out my sheaf
of notes and detached the top one: it was written for ten pounds,
and signed by that very famous individual, Abraham Newlands.
'Oblige me, as you would like me to oblige your brother if the
parts were reversed, and take this note for the expenses. I shall
need not only food, but clothes.'
'Lay it on the ground,' said she. 'I must not stop my beating.'
'You are not offended?' I exclaimed.
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