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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: and very thirsty gentleman; and, for my part, I begin to
weary for a drink. As for clues and adventures, the only
adventure that is ever likely to occur to me will be an
adventure with a bailiff.'
'Now there is the fallacy,' cried Somerset. 'There I catch
the secret of your futility in life. The world teems and
bubbles with adventure; it besieges you along the street:
hands waving out of windows, swindlers coming up and swearing
they knew you when you were abroad, affable and doubtful
people of all sorts and conditions begging and truckling for
your notice. But not you: you turn away, you walk your
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