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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: He held up both his hands. "Sirs! sirs!" cried he.
I thought by the expression of his face and voice that I had lost my
helper.
"Let me explain. . ." I began.
"I thank you kindly, I will hear no more of it," says he. "I decline
IN TOTO to hear more of it. For your name's sake and Rankeillor's, and
perhaps a little for your own, I will do what I can to help you; but I
will hear no more upon the facts. And it is my first clear duty to
warn you. These are deep waters, Mr. David, and you are a young man.
Be cautious and think twice."
"It is to be supposed I will have thought oftener than that, Mr.
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