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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: Their very aspect was delightful to me; and I crept nearer to
them, thinking to pick up some snatch of sexton gossip, some
'talk fit for a charnel,' (2) something, in fine, worthy of
that fastidious logician, that adept in coroner's law, who
has come down to us as the patron of Yaughan's liquor, and
the very prince of gravediggers. Scots people in general are
so much wrapped up in their profession that I had a good
chance of overhearing such conversation: the talk of fish-
mongers running usually on stockfish and haddocks; while of
the Scots sexton I could repeat stories and speeches that
positively smell of the graveyard. But on this occasion I
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