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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: stirred at times, sliding round a trunk, or scampering across the
dry leaves. Occasionally a pig grunted and moved farther into
the wood. But the place was very quiet, and I do not know how it
was that I surprised Clon instead of being surprised by him.
He was walking along the path before me with his eyes on the
ground--walking so slowly, and with his lean frame so bent that I
might have supposed him ill if I had not remarked the steady
movement of his head from right to left, and the alert touch with
which he now and again displaced a clod of earth or a cluster of
leaves. By-and-by he rose stiffly, and looked round him
suspiciously; but by that time I had slipped behind a trunk, and
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