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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Dynamiter by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Van De Grift Stevenson: intervened. You will now understand the heaviness with which
your mother's memory hangs about my neck.'
I cried out aloud, in pity for my parents; and in seeking to
console the survivor, I forgot myself.
'It matters not,' resumed my father. 'What I have left
undone can never be repaired, and I must bear the penalty of
my remorse. But, Teresa, with so cutting a reminder of the
evils of delay, I set myself at once to do what was still
possible: to liberate yourself.'
I began to break forth in thanks, but he checked me with a
sombre roughness.
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